Democrats Should Focus On Jobs, Not Shirley Sherrod

July 22, 2010 RSS Feed Print

Race has dominated the political agenda for the last few days. And that’s exactly what Republicans want.

On the day that President Obama signed landmark legislation that cracks down on abuses on Wall Street and protects consumers, the media focused on the travails of a black federal government official, Shirley Sherrod, who was unfairly tarred and feathered for racism on the Internet by a conservative blogger.

[Check out our editorial cartoons on Goldman Sachs.]

Racism divides America while populist economic policies unite us. GOP attempts to divert voters from their core economic concerns and undermine the integrity of the New Deal coalition go back to Richard Nixon’s successful "Southern strategy" in the 1968 presidential election. Division by race has been part of the Republican playbook since. Current GOP efforts to demonize immigrants are part of the plan.

Democrats need to keep the focus on jobs and populist economic policies between now and November. The extension of unemployment benefits and the new consumer protection law are a good start, but we need more. The Democratic congressional leadership has wisely planned a series of votes on legislation designed to revive manufacturing in the United States.

Republicans will continue to demagogue race to keep the heat on us. Democrats should push jobs to keep the pressure on them.

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As I followed the election between McCain and Barack Obama I began to realize that the Democratic party was slowly inserting into the race, the race card! As the Dems contracted, to transport thousands of people in buses to the voting polls .. and how they protested reports of forged voter ballots, duplicate signatures, payoffs of cigarettes and dollar bills to homeless, and to people who didn't even know who was running for the President of the United States. And all of the above .. in favor of a man who didn't have the qualifications to be the president, Barack Hussein Obama a puppet for the Democrats! As I saw him smile and make speeches of promises to the minorities and the poor, and spew allegations against the wealthy, and heard the applause and cheers to his speeches, I was engulfed with a sense of gloom, because those on both sides of the fence who were naive enough to believe the lies the Dems had prepared for him, were about to follow a man who wasn't even an American. He's never played ball in the streets of america, he's never protested for the civil rights of various minorities, and he's never visited neighborhoods throughout america where different cultures of citizens live. And to my regret, he was elected. I wasn't concerned about my well being as much as I was about what would happen to my country if he were to take office. The man to this day, because of his lack of experience in dealing with the responsibilities of the office he occupies, will not admit to his failures, and would rather destroy the only true democratic country on this planet because of his FAILED policies. Now we're dealing with a problem in America, that just below the surface has been percolating for more than a hundred years .. racism!! Why was everyone quiet, even those that believed in Obama when he apologized to foreign leaders for America and its involvement in helping many countries that asked for help? Why didn't Obama protest to Eric Holder (another non-american) when he loudly called America and its citizens, a country of cowards?! By their actions and speeches, these two have only given credence and encouragement to radical individuals and organizations that now feel protected from prosecution of civil rights of individuals, and that they are above the law. Americans of all races and backgrounds that have contributed for the last 40 years, to calm and overcome the problem of racism are currently finding it more difficult to calm the seas, because of accusations of racism from both political parties and Obamas and Holders prejudisms. And by their actions of disregarding the Constitution of the United States, and casting aside the objections of Americans to certain policies of this admin, Obama is showing the citizens of America that he dousn't care about the laws of the United States, and he will do whatever he has to, to change America to a Socialist / Communist country by destroying our democratic system!!!

BORN AMERICAN of CA 12:00AM July 23, 2010

1. Get rid of the dogmatic and intolerant Environmentalist regulations that tie industry down like a thousand Lilliputin threads. The eco-regs cost time, jobs and money. Business flees to a more friendly "environment".

2. Establish "right to work" laws in every state.

3. Offer tax incentives to corporations who bring out sourced jobs home. Impose tax penalties on those that don't.

4. Investment tax credits.

5. Lower capital gains taxes.

6. Raise taxes on those making over 1 million a year. They will just have to soldier on keeping only 25% over 1 million.

7. In 1970 top executives made about 20 times more than their mid-level employees. Now they make more than 150 times that amount. Either tax it out of them or let them pay their employees more voluntarily.

8. Close the border and deport all who are here less than 5 years.

9. Fines and jail time for those who employee illegals.

10. Build nuclear and hydroelectric power plants. Open more areas to drilling for oil. We need cheap energy to compete.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 9:38PM July 22, 2010

Funny how when the truth hits home , you put your tail between your legs and head for the doggie door . You brought me up .

Hunter of WI 8:54PM July 22, 2010

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Brad Bannon is the President of Bannon Communications Research, which is a polling and consulting firm that helps Democratic candidates, labor unions and progressive issue groups win political and public affairs campaigns. Brad also guest hosts Leslie Marshall's nationally syndicated radio talk show and has his own show on 1510 AM, Boston's progressive talker.

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