IngSoc, you make some valid points about the *origins* of wealth. My analysis takes for granted the existence of a pluaralistic, industrialized state and asks the question: what policies will best lead to future, generalized prosperity?

Land is a good example, even today. Some are born with it, some without. Most unfair, you could say. But the question then becomes: what do you do going forward? In Venezuela, the government confiscates land and turns it over to peasants who have no access to seeds, fertilizers, equipment, and other resources needed for modern agriculture. Surprise! Instead of working as peons on a latifunda, they end up with absolutely nothing instead.

So it is, in my view, with Obamanomics. William Ayres, incidentally, was in Venezuela recently paying tribute to Chavez. He may have been taking a break from spreading endowment money around the slums of south Chicago. None of this builds wealth, as far as I can see.

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Baldie McEagle, if it was you who posted on Gorbachev and farming, you missed the point of my analogy. It had nothing to do with Barack or taxes; I was saying that I personally did not need a *boss* (like the RNC) to get me out of bed and write posts in support of McCain/Palin. It was Gorbachev, not me, who presumed Russian farmers would not work without being kicked into the fields. If anyone gave offense to Russian farmers, it would be him, not me.

This is the single greatest *personal* failure in Barack Obama's career.

He told a paper in 2004 that he went to that church *every* Sunday. Not most Sundays. Every Sunday.

The sermons calling for the damnation of America (more specifically, white America) and blaming the U.S. for 9/11 were not bootlegged snippets. They came from the church's promotional video. Barack gave $20,000 to that church in 2007, long after these comments occurred and were included in the church's vignettes of its most proud moments.

Even in 2008, Obama refused to denounced Wright. He claimed that he reviewed the statements referenced above, but concluded Wright's racist lunacy was no less offensive than his own racist grandmother. No point in denouncing either one, Barack assured us. They're both equally bad. Until Jeremiah repeated his statements in Washington, at which time Barack backed off.

Simply stated, the man swam about in a racist, paranoid cesspool for 20 years, and refused to denounce it initially when it first became public. The public, in turn, has a right to be reminded of this story.

At the risk of being argumentative, what about this stinks? This is who Jeremiah is. He's proud of it. For twenty years, Obama was proud of his association with that church. Is there some suggestion here that the Republicans doctored the video? As I noted earlier, this is the church's *promotional* video, after all. This is who they are. For twenty years, Obama was part of a church which openly called down damnation upon the white race, the KKK of A, as Wright elegantly puts it. Why run away from your core beliefs?

Rather than argue tit for tat about Wright, allow me to offer this.

Let's take two possibilities. One is that Obama fell mysteriously ill on the Sundays when Wright went crazy from the pulpit. We'll put a 50% chance on that. The other is that Obama was there and endorsed Wright's views. Let's put that at 50% too.

Couple the latter point with Michelle's statement that she was never proud of American until her husband got the vote of hay seed white farmers in Iowa. They redeemed themselves in her eyes - the eyes of a woman who went to Wright's church too, and feasted on anti-white paranoid bigotry (e.g., white race inventing AIDS to commit black genocide) for twenty years.

Now, of course, there's *lots* to be proud of. White people across the country are adoring Barack Obama - almost as much as white teens in the 80's adored Michael Jackson, or white suburban NFL fans adore black half-backs today from the comforts of their luxury suits. You might surmise: isn't there something superficial about this? Recall the old joke about Frank Robinson managing a baseball team: he broke the color barrier not when he was hired, but when he was fired. Same treatment as everyone else. Today, Barack Obama is revered in what I think is very strange ways (I'm speaking of friends and neighbors, not the national media).

My point is: I think white America is not truly *accepting* of him, by treating him as a bizarre icon. We've got a long way to go, folks. Although, we now hear that Obama is kicking critics off his press plane to make way for hagiographers, which suggests to me he personally is not ready to get *there,* either.