Why Mayor Corey Booker Is Wrong Or Was It A Gambit To Present The Bain Investment Question Lethally

On the 5/20/12; Meet The Press, Mayor Corey Booker criticized both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney campaigns for negative attacks and Mayor Corey Booker naively or in  fait accompli appeasement gambit to seem statesman like and reenergize the Bain Investment question, compared the Barack Obama campaigns scrutiny of Mitt Romney's work at Bain Investment (a private equity firm) to Republican-Conservatism/Tea Partyism hints to resurrect the Rev. Wright controversy against Obama.

Mayor Cory Booker is wrong because he naively fell for the Romney and Republican narrative that attacking Romney's work at Bain Investment is an attack on private equity in general.  But as a gambit to present the Bain Investment question lethally it was classically ingenious.

Romney and Republican-Conservatism/Tea Partyism recognize their weakness on the Bain Investment question so instead of aggressively defending Bain Investment as a singularity, Romney and Republican-Conservatism/Tea Partyism hope to by expanding the Bain question to private equity in general, passive-aggressive anticipate the eager beaver naivete of the likes of Mayor Corey Booker with his inchoate grasp of polemics.  But as gambit, well suited as Trojan Horse to prepare the environment for the sharp and politically mature attacks from the Obama campaign.  It is simple without Booker, Obama wouldn't have had the opportunity to use the NATO platform to distill the campaign's Bain attacks.

The nations national-economy since the first Reagan administration has been eviscerated by the resurgent activity of certain mediocre minds and enabled by the George W. Bush administration.  Who unable to swim in the shark infested canyons of Wall St. chose a more even bet of buying underperforming and undervalued companies, dismembering them specifically for profit, to maximize returns on their principal investment---just as Slave Masters during Slavery some of these private equities were less destructive on the national economic landscape than others.

Bain Investment under the stewardship of Romney fell in the more destructive column and considering the fact Romney has the gall to claim his Bain activities were primarily job creating in his quest for the Presidency.  The Obama campaign is correct in scrutinizing Romney's Bain work and as a gambit it is lethally ingenious to present the Bain question as a Mayor Corey Booker blooper.

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John Avalon and Political-Economy Illiteracy, Facebook More Valuable Than McDonald's

John Avalon is corporate media tame and corporate America domesticated and his ignorance and Political-Economy illiteracy was in evidence and on full display on the 5/18/12; CNN StartingPoint with Soledad O'Brien.  When during an interview on Facebook's IPO and Stock valuation, John Avalon uttered the infamous and we paraphrase: Why should Facebook's stock be more valuable than McDonald's (Fast food).

John Avalon wasn't laughed at and ridiculed out of CNN studios which is also quite telling of the unfathomable depths of American Political-Economy illiteracy when a serious  socio-political commentator as John Avalon can be so revealing naive and is not corrected.

By the way the answer to John Avalon's question is simple: where does America spend more time, is it under the Golden Arches of Mcdonald's or the omniscience of their Facebook pages?  America and the rest  of the world have spoken and continued to say that Facebook is infinitely more valuable than Mcdonald's because their time and more of it, their life is spent with it.

If John Avalon does not get this basic point about value, what then is his authority to speak matters of the Human Condition which is all about value and it's objectification?

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Socio-Political Commentary, Sports Commentators, Analyst, Writers and The Ethnic and Class Bias Prism

Okay! I'm a cynic.  I don't accept the proposition that in an ideology-challenged Political-Economy as we have in the United States.  There can be and exist socio-political commentary and analysis that is not a reflection of the commentators alienation and a result of their suppositionary biases.
For example if 90% of sports commentators, analyst and writers are White and 95% of their subjects and objective of their work are Black.  Why should we ignore the reality that the sum of the work of those sports commentators, analyst and writers as is presented to consumers is through the ethnic and class bias prism, notwithstanding human idealism and it's undisciplined pettiness?

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James Earl Jones, "Driving Miss Daisy", NBC's Kathie Lee Gifford and The Insidious Naivete Of Her Bigotry

On 2/2/11; while interviewing the accomplished icon James Earl Jones about the Broadway version of "Driving Miss Daisy" and his role in it.  NBC's Kathie Lee Gifford made the addled observation that the content of "Driving Miss Daisy" it's subject matter, is so "powerful" that it could be from and I paraphrase today's news headlines.
Poor James Earl Jones the totemic-surrogate of all that was pathetic and insane about "Driving Miss Daisy", when Morgan Freeman in it's Hollywood depiction reminded us of the Intellectual-Liberalism of segregation and it's Jim Crow barbaric futility is what NBC's Kathie Lee Gifford so piningly pronounced could be appreciated through news headlines of contemporary American society.

James Earl Jones had to sit there and wonder whether what he was being assaulted with was a result of Kathie Lee Gifford's delusion or the insidious naivete of her bigotry.

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CNN's Piers Morgan, Howard Schultz CEO of Starbucks, The 2012 Elections and Financial Redistribution

During a 3/21/12; interview on CNN's Piers Morgan Howard Schultz CEO of Starbucks critiqued the 2012 elections and it's supposed $6 billion price tag as a waste.  The critique was another rote refrain that money spent for political office and it's speculative power is a waste.

Coming from the CEO of a company Entrepreneur in it's April 2012 issue lauded as one of the 10 most trusted brands in the nation.  Howard Schultz's critique mocks the success of Starbucks and it is alarming in it's naivete.

If the 2012 elections will cost $6 billion.  What it means is $6 billion is being redistributed and contrary to the insidious illiteracy of financial redistribution as an un-Godly, un-American, Marxist scheme, finance (and Joe The Plumber listen up) worships at the alter of redistribution.  The $6 billion in question will immediately and primarily flow into Corporate Media (for ads and the relative means of disseminating political hook, line and sinkers) and the political consultancy industry.  This primary redistribution translates into.  A secondary one within the society impacting it's roots germanely.

Even though viscerally the idea that $6 billion is being spent in pursuit of speculative-power and it's Intellectual-Liberalism insults common sense.  It's critique lies with and is that of morality and it's relativism.

Corporate Media, it's share holders and ancillary support functionaries see a $6 billion boon.  The political consultancy industry sees a wind-fall and mom and pop eateries along the less traveled roads of battle-ground states are as those Nile Crocodiles lurking in African rivers on the bi-annual animal migrations: blacking out the red of the preceeding lean 3 years with what their take out and counter tops collect.

Considering Starbucks has been a beneficiary of election financial-transmigratory, redistribution and will be during the 2012 election and it's purported $6 billion tag.  It is ridiculously disingenuous for Howard Schultz CEO of Starbucks to critique financial redistribution so recklessly.



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Once Again, Circa Four More Years, The American Hopelessness

So Once again---it's on like days long gone but fresh to the memory raw.

America: it was land of the brave, home of the free---till creaky, rat infested ships made it's shore and lice borne, scurvy maddened, petty tyrannical minds breathed it's freshness and with sticky fingers and beady eye glee stole it clean.

So once again it's on like the song vote for me and I'll set you free.  Then the vote was stolen as it once was in Florida and the song blown naked in the air resurrecting "Southern Trees Bear Strange Fruit" gatherings of Tea Partiers damning Lincoln's legacy reposed in the Oval office.

And the sounds once again were made---from the braying donkey to the trumpeting elephant: it was foul, it was fair rang clear and hollow and the silence of the lands hopelessness was the loudest of them all---as eyes that hear, heard it all and insisted their ears had seen it all so what was the use.

So again, like days long gone but fresh to the memory raw instead of settling of accounts the land was abundant with it's forgiveness and understanding.  A forgiveness and understanding never given it when it's sons and daughters stand in the pale of those three strikes you are out,  no parole and mandatory and truth in sentencing laws.

And once again it's on---to feel the sting of the lash and guttural "get back, stay in your place" of the beady eyed smirk cunningly watching to see how well and true you understand that it's the Reagan-Democrat collaborationist, the delusional Independent, the  imbecilic Tea Partiers we will have to get gone if the land is to realize---by your abilities to the limitations of your expectations.

So once again---it's on like days gone but fresh to the memory raw circa four more years the American hopelessness.

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