RealClearPolitics was founded by a Wall Street trader an an ad flack to combat what the duo perceived as anti-conservative and anti-fundalmentalist bias in the mainstream press. They are backed by the pro-business Forbes Magazine, which is well-known for its annual release of the 400 richest people in the world. It comes as no surprise that there are no black Americans in the top 100, but a single race’s exclusion from the wealth of the nation is of no great concern for RealClearPolitics, since they are dedicated to announcing poll results on President Obama’s Job approval rating.
Pro – 43.8%
Con – 51%
Obama has been GW Bush low in RealClearPolitics’ polls throughout his first term, despite his staving off economic disaster, OKing the summary execution of Osama Bin Laden, pulling all the troops out of Iraq, and not telling the GOP to fuck off and die.
The recent increase in the poll numbers reflect the public’s exhaustion of negative news about the president, but the force of the right are relentless in their pursuit to paint the president ‘Red’ as well as black.
Fox News attacked Obama’s plan to finance the higher education of Americans by portraying this scheme as a socialist take-over of private enterprise, even though many of the private institutions are simply profiting from the distribution of public funds.
Fox News even dredges out the name of a mythical Frank Zappa character from the Mothers of Inventions album FREAK OUT.
Suzy Creamcheese.
Fox News extract:
“Take this example: If Suzy Creamcheese gets into George Washington University and borrows from the government the requisite $212,000 to obtain an undergraduate degree, her repayment schedule will be based on what she earns. If Suzy opts to heed the president’s call for public service, and takes a job as a city social worker earning $25,000, her payments would be limited to $1,411 a year after the $10,890 of poverty-level income is subtracted from her total exposure.
Twenty years at that rate would have taxpayers recoup only $28,220 of their $212,000 loan to Suzy.”
They further suggest that Suzy Creamcheese is plotting to damage the credit markets, as if the banks hadn’t done a better job during the housing bubble.
Better for America to shut the colleges, universities, and high schools, because the private sector has no intention of creating any jobs from the wealth that they plundered over the last thirty years and it’s not even the Forbes 400 who are to blame.
The guilt lies with the bankers mad with the hoarding bug.
They want to accumulate every last dollar in the system, so everyone else in the world is poor.
Even the rich.
Future Steve Jobs and Bill Gates beware.
Not only will there will no free lunches, but the universities will be closed.
Get ready to count on your fingers or turn outlaw like Pretty Boy Floyd.
He never robbed an honest man.
ps Obama’s getting my vote in 2012.
I give him two thumbs up now we’re leaving Iraq.
Next up; bring the troops home from Afghanistan and tax the rich.