[nfbmi-talk] President Obama As Deliverer?

[Kane Brolin]

On 2/6/14, Terry D. Eagle <terrydeagle at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I agree that President Obama could use executive order power to prohibit
> federal contractors from paying less than minimum wage to all employees.
> Such a bold leadership action, might just put the disabled persons' slave
> factories out of business.  Then it would be up to Congress to show their
> colors, and demonstrate whether they shall end slavery for those persons
> whom it is imposed upon, or will they protect their campaign coffers for special
> interest masters.

Sad to say.  But "President Obama" and "bold" are words that should
not even appear on the same page.  Unlike some, I do not hate the
President, and I have voted for certain Democratic Party candidates in
the past.  But aside from his stance on LGBT issues, taken I believe
largely because this is a fairly well-healed special interest group
financially speaking, this man is nobody's liberator.  Much like the
Democratic Party in this country (and especially in Michigan), he has
sold out his own voter base and is failing to come to the aid of any
minority group that is truly disenfranchised.  Many African-Americans
are coming to this same conclusion, even though he holds himself out
as one of them.

I'm not trying to divert this list into partisan territory, because I
like the "loyal opposition" even less at this point.  But I believe
it's the truth.  A blind acquaintance of mine who works in Cook
County, Illinois government, told me right after the 2008 election
what to expect, saying that Barack Obama is known there as the Great
Compromiser, doing everything he can just to work out the legal
fiction of a deal without being any kind of real game-changer.  This
statement has proved to be hauntingly accurate.

-Kane