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President Obama: Respect workers’ Rights - Emancipate United States Postal Workers PART II

by Wattree 11/4/2011 - 10:01 pm

 

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE
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It's time For President Obama to clearly Define Himself

by Wattree 10/13/2011 - 8:37 am

The spontaneous demonstrations that are taking place on Wall Street and across the country should be seen as both good news, and bad news for President Obama. On the one hand, they indicate that the people are waking up to reality, but on the other, it means that they’ve come to the conclusion that if they want to survive they can’t depend on the help of politicians - and that includes Obama.

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So it’s time for Obama to wake up as well. The time has come for him to open his eyes to an ugly reality - we’re knee-deep in a class war. So if he intends to win the coming election it is incumbent upon him to make a clear distinction between himself and the GOP. If he fails to do so, the next election is going to be a toss up. [Read more]

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Herman Cain: Black People Are Brainwashed? Please!

by Wattree 10/13/2011 - 7:10 am

NOT IN THIS GOP, FELLAS

Herman Cain claims that the reason that black people won’t support him is that they’ve been brainwashed. And many conservatives are saying Cain is President Obama’s worst nightmare. I would have loved to have been in the White House when those statements came out. In spite of Obama’s laid-back demeanor, I’d be willing to bet that he was laughing so hard that he was rolling on the floor of the Oval Office in tears.

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One would think that this man would have sense enough to know that no one takes him seriously - and especially the GOP. And if the GOP had ever taken the time to truly get to know the Black community, they’d know that the only thing more toxic to Black people than a flat-out racist, is a Black conservative (with the notable exception of Colin Powell, because he’s not really a conservative - he was just smart enough to flimflam the overseer, instead of the reverse). [Read more]

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Once Again Nader and West Team to Elect a Republican President

by Wattree 9/27/2011 - 9:05 am

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree
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The American People Are being Flimflammed, Bamboozled, and Hornswoggled by the GOP

by Wattree 9/27/2011 - 5:43 am

At the very outset I’d like to make an unequivocal assertion - entrusting our economy and the well being of the poor and middle class to the GOP is like entrusting the well being of a child to a convicted child molester. If you think that’s hyperbole, simply ask yourself who was the last Republican president who didn’t drag our economy into a ditch. If you want to say Ronald Reagan, forget it. In spite of the fact that Reagan ran on a platform of limited government and economic responsibility, during his tenure he not only tripled the national debt, but did more spending than all of the presidents who preceded him - COMBINED. In addition, he effectively destroyed our industrial base in the process.

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How Do Politicians Get People to Vote Against Their Own Interest?

by Wattree 9/14/2011 - 1:20 am

I was watching the Republican debates the other night and it astounded me to see how many people were applauding proposed policies that would cut their throats. During the debates I watched people whose very lives are dependent on social security, applauding enthusiastically in support of the views of Rick Perry, Republican governor of Texas, a man who is on record as saying he believes that social security is unconstitutional. So how do politicians get people to vote against their own interest?

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Tavis/West: We Know We're Hurting, Now Tell Us the Truth About Why

by Wattree 8/29/2011 - 5:38 pm

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree
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U.S. Postal Service: Is the Budget More Important Than Employees Exposed to TB?

by Wattree 8/24/2011 - 9:28 pm

According to a very reliable source, on Tuesday, August 2, 2011, when the employees showed up for work at the United States Postal Service’s Los Angeles International Service Center (LAXISC), they were greeted by a note on the time clock instructing them to gather in the main conference room at 3:30 p.m. After all of the employees assembled, along with some military personnel and personnel from the Center for Disease Control, they were informed by the plant manager, a Mr. Holden, that they had been exposed to tuberculosis. They were told that an employee had contracted the disease about a year earlier and they had just been informed by the CDC.

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The Tavis/West Poverty Pimp Tour

by Wattree 8/15/2011 - 5:40 pm

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

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Will The Real President Obama Please, Please Stand up?

by Wattree 8/3/2011 - 12:42 am

I’ve been a steadfast Obama supporter every since the very first day he arrived on the political scene, but I must admit, it hasn’t always been easy. First, even as a candidate, he reversed his position on FISA after it was revealed that the Bush administration had been illegally spying on the American people. Then once elected, instead of allowing his attorney general the free hand to hold Bush and Cheney accountable for the war crimes committed in Iraq as prescribed both by law, and his oath of office, he sent the message to his attorney general, and the American people, that we shouldn’t "look back" on the murder of close to a million people.

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Then, instead of giving us the change that we could believe in that he promised during the campaign, he’s allowed the Republican Party to frame a completely false political debate which has given them free rein to hold the American people hostage and keep us in absolute misery. And while all this is going on, the only word coming out of his mouth is "compromise." [Read more]

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