Finally: The Truth Behind Rich Guys' Hatred for Obama

First let me say categorically that I am not making this up.  The Angry White Mom is merely repeating here the actual comments made recently by a few very rich guys -- specifically Sam Zell, Leon Cooperton and Jack Welch, who no doubt speak for dozens of rich guys who just don't have the opportunity to publicly express identical perspectives.
Jack Welch gained headlines among his racist/rightest sycophants  for his Twitter comment after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the recent unemployment figures that the stats were manipulated by the Obama campaign. What idiocy. But like clockwork, first Sean Insanity Hannity picked it up, the Oxycontin Express Limbaugh ran with it,  and the next morning that bobblehead Gretchen Carlson spewed it out as if it were factual on Fox "News."
But it was Chris Matthews' attack badger interview with Welch that revealed the truth underlying
the ridiculous speculation and subsequent accusations that obsess him and his peers. It seens that what really upsets Mr. Welch about our President is that Mr. Obama doesn't suck up to the rich guys like they think he should.  Is this a racist idea?  Well, maybe, but I doubt it, since I have seen it and experienced all my life the very same thing from rich white men -- they think they are really something because they have money and they think you should think so too. They don't understand -- in fact, they are astonished --that you simply do not fall at their feet, groveling and tugging the forelock. They believe everyone should offer up some kind of obeisance, I guess while facing their bank and bowing to their fiduciary powers.
That Obama doesn't appreciate the wealthy enough was actually expressed by some rich guy named Sam Zell -- he actually stated that. Paraphrasing here, but it was something to the effect that what billionaires and millionairs need is encouragement, not criticism, from the President. Oh.  Poor thing.  His feelings are hurt because the President is conservative in his "attaboys." He also  really resents that Beyonce and JayZ have more access to the White House than his little millionaire/billionaire club.  Hey! Sam! Maybe Beyonce and JayZ are just more fun than you are? I bet they aren't whining about their share of  Obama's attention. I mean really. Grow up. You sound like a snotty sophomore not invited to a senior party.
Another robber-baron type hedgefund manager and former Obama donor Leon Cooperton offered up his really really insightful and original comparison of Obama to Hitler (really. again with the Hitler.) because he hasn't allowed Wall Street to continue to run rampant over the rest of us.
Really? You guys don' t really seem to have the facts to back you up on this one.
Like: The Stock Market doubling from 6500 when Obama took office to over 13,000 today.
Like: some 5 million private sector jobs.
Like :the extension, despite his better judgement and the massive addition to the deficit, of the Bush Tax Cuts
Like: oh forget it.
Perhaps Mr. Cooperton had some expectations in exchange for his previous support, and just didn't get the bang from his buck he feels entitled to.
But wait I remember now! these guys prefer the fact-free  Right Wing World and too often find their
views confirmed by equally off-the-wall mental giants --  their conversation becomes a poison stew without any facts to dilute the broth of foolishness.
I'm  sure they are quite comfotable there. The rest of us know however that the Truth often hurts; and sometimes needs a bandage on it.

President's Debate Performance Not as Disappointing as His Supporters'

Okay, I admit watching the first presidential debate Oct. 3 was a bit painful  but what really pisses off The Angry White Mom about the so-called "debate analysis" of the last week is the way our President's supporters have demonstrated the exact kind of spineless whining that has been the Democratic Party's
undoing so often in the past. It certainly did not deserve the kind of freak-out reaction it spawned among our most hightly paid pundits.
Actress/activist Kerry somebody (Robinson, maybe?) actually stood out among the woebegone with Bill Mahrer when she complained that media and pundits on both sides castigated Obama in 2008 for being all style, no substance, but in Wednesday's debate -- despite being unexpectedly hit full on by Romney's Etch-A-Sketch -- he was determined to keep the debate focused on substantive matters, and for this he is sand-bagged by his fellow Democrats .  Good for her for pointing this out -- that the media, -the so-called "liberal" media included, fall into the most obvious and hyperdramatic holes when they stray from
reporting to supposing.
Any good Mom knows from attending any kind of extracurricular event that while you have a stake in the game, you find yourself taking a lot of deep breaths, biting  back your sarcasm and SUPPORTING YOUR TEAM for all it's worth -- and make sure that your child, and the children of your neighbors, and most importantly, your opposition, knows that you are "right behind ya rootin' for ya" come what may.
While I may neither understand nor like the strategy, I know that their is one and the pros are sticking
with the plan. It's a lot like watching your kid play high school football. Parents may believe -- or even in some cases, know -- that the coach is an idiot. Regardless, you are best served by supporting the team itself, and keeping your doubts to yourself, especially if you want your child to be in the next game's line-up.  My sons would both tell you that this is a virtue I never was able to achieve.
But hindsight, as they say, is 20/20 -- and really all any of us have to offer is hindsight  -- so I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the strategy deployed by the Obama campaign is not indeed some
kind of "rope-a-dope" plan, as expressed by the good Rev. Al  -- primitive but easy, considering the amount of fodder Romney keeps shoveling our way.
So BUCK UP, Team Obama -- get your Game Face on. Trust me -- the President has his Game Face on and his courage "screwed to the sticking place (Henry V).   Go Hard and Go Hard until the final buzzer. Even if it hurts,  because it's the truth.  And it's okay to put a bandage on it.

I AM one of Mitt's "Those People"

You godda admit, it takes a lot these days to shock or disappoint The Angry White Mom, but i have had an epiphany that may save me hundreds of dollars in therapy co-pays, and i feel a strong obligation to pass it on in case others are feeling the same feelings I am  but somehow cannot express them. I mean, I have let go some pretty irritating stuff -- the War on Women and Children, the Welfare to Work bull shit,
the entire RNC convention, the high-pitched whine, like that of an obnoxious male mosquito, that is Reince Preibus.
 If some of you have noticed my absence from these pages, well bless you for noticing, and let me first say that part of my absence has been due to an obnoxious back injury that has been a nagging deterrent to sitting anywhere, anytime, for very long. Sorry,   But a few needles in the spine and some massive pain medications have got me upright and although my vertebrae remain painfully fragile, and my nerves are
rubbed raw,  believe me, my spine (although injured in a different way) lately also has seen a comeback and appears to be growing strong again. 
 My back I hurt by falling.  My "spine", however, that indefinable core of convictions that centers you and binds you to reality, was almost irretrievably injured last summer by a once-respected relative, who, like
presidential candidate Mitt Romney recently, characterized me as one of "those people". It shocked me.  I mean, I knew his political views were to the right of mine, but you know, he's still related... But it rocked  me to the core, because I know of absolutely nothing in my history or my life that would seem to justify his perception of me. And that perception itself was so shocking, it nearly paralyzed me psychologically  for quite some time, demanding a deeper look perhaps into my own place in this America.
But wait, I wanted to tell him. Wait a sec -- what "those people?" I have never been on welfare. Never applied for food stamps, or even a SBA loan. No grants or loans  for college --\mom and i footed the whole bill. Never applied for school lunches for the boys. Never cheated on a tax return.  My husband and I pay our property taxes on time every year.  I make sure our medical bills are paid. I have never overcharged a client.  I haven't worked full time since 2008, and did not qualify for unemployment. And so. Looking it all over, I find our family situation, and our attitudes, our values, to be failrly typical as opposed to special.  Most folks I know are just like us.  Us people.

But the term "those people" -- as sneered at us by Romney as well as my relative (and others who have been more fortunate or smarter or better connected and ultimately better off financially) it carries with it an almost sinister connotation.  You  know exactly what they mean, but its not really said out loud but instead with winks and nose-led nods of agreement, like the not-so-subtle hand gestures law enforcement uses even today to indicate a black person.  But ever ready  to help out, Romney has even listed the attributes of us "those people"  for us --- in short, we "those people" are dependent, lazy, entitled.
These days, though, "those people" who depend on the government and its entitlements, include a couple I know who have an autistic teenage son.  They are not an anecdote, or  a public relations -enhanced story but are real, hardworking Americans who pay taxes and are imminently deserving of the paltry amount of assistance the Federal Government gives the public school that their son attends to help with the cost of providing him with the best possible education despite his disability.  This, folks, is an example of one of the "Entitlements" that enrage the right. Yes. One of those freedom-gutting entitlements that "those people" get.  Really?  I seriously suggest that anyone unhappy with "entitlements" should take a look at what they are and what they are designed to accomplish before brainlessly bashing them.


I suspect Mr. Romney is disappointed because "those people" are not as accepting of his policies as he would prefer. Do I object when someone wants to devalue my Social Security and my Medicare investments (oh God, did she really just say "Investments?") --- Why I most certainly do.  Because what they want to do is not what I signed up for.  I object to their wanting to break the contract with the American people, and I find myself wondering, when they scream to "take back our country" whether they mean taking it back to the 1950s as I first suspected, or taking it back to the 1870s when successive  Congresses made it a common practice to break anyand all contracts previously made by the government with Native tribes that would give them any sort of ability to sustain themselves. I guess the Indians were the "those people" of the day.

I guess I should not complain.  After all, as one of "those people"  I find that I prefer the company.
Whether coming from the guy who claims to want my vote,  or from a relative, the words themselves are not Truth, but only symbols of the deeply contemptuous opinion revealed in their uttering. Yes, the words really do sting,  leave ugly bruises and a deep ache in the gut. Not really the kind of injuries that can easily be fixed by neurological procedures or even a bandage.  Go figure.