Should President Obama go Medea or go Black? The Republicans, Hostage Taking Terrorist

Ahhhh Chicago where Journalist write columns that could easily be confused with the Onion.
Journalist Laura Washington, in the Chicago Suntimes, once again allowed provincial Midwest parochial attitudes to stand in the way of serious debate about President Obama, by opining that her African American middle class friends want Obama to “go black” [put his hands on his hips and let it rip]” Washington said.  "They want to see a little more “Medea” in the White House.”  Personally your Spook isn't familiar with Medea, but Washington filled in the details with “That’s Medea, Tyler Perry’s brassy, bossy, larger-than-life character who knows what she wants — and gets it. Medea does not play.” 



Well I looked up "Tyler Perry's Media"and was really appalled.  Is this what the debate comes down to in Chicago's African-American community,  Medea being a point of reference and discussion with regards to Obama's current economic policy?  And if he's gonna get angry, why can't he get angry like Malcom X or Angela Davis instead of a clownish drag queen? And what's up with Black people still watching TV shows like that in the first place? And then you have Black folks like Laura Washington who refuse to hold President Obama accountable. I'm trapped between a rock and a hard place.


Well, finally Obama gave a single body blow to the Republicans by calling them Hostage takers. But I think it's too little to late. And for the record, this time I theoretically agree with President Obama about negotiating and giving in to the Republican “hostage takers” in order to block thousands of Americans from being pushed over into the abyss of abject poverty.  But the problem is that President Obama is responsible for arming, aiding, and abetting the hostage takers who are nothing but terrorist to what’s left of the “American Dream”. 

It was President Obama who immediately and continually rewarded them even though they consistently prove to be unreliable, dishonest, and destructive partners at best.  And when President Obama was first elected, he enriched the war chest of these hostage taker's  by funding their corporate sponsors- Big Business- by allowing them to raid the American Treasury, via the corporate bailouts.  We know that this did little for job creation or direct lending to spur our broken economy forward. What it did do was to increase the wealth of the moneyed elite and these Republican Hostage Taking Terrorist. 

Sadly, President Obama has always praised the Reagan Presidency.  And it seems that this praise is not just about Reagan having been a good communicator.  President Obama, instead of using FDR and LBJ's approach of a bottom up economic rescue plan, continued George Bush’s Bank/Corporate Bail Out, which is distinctly Reaganesque in terms of his “trickle down theory", which continues to fail the American People.  Now, we have a two year continuation of the biggest tax windfall for the wealthiest Americans, and Big business who will continue to invests in their own wealth creation as opposed to invest back into the economy, while the poorest unemployed Americans get a few more crumbs for the next six months.