For those few of us who still appreciate him, The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama’s Fall From Grace, is a worthwhile read.

It is hard to find just one thing to quote from the article.  The one I have chosen is just the easiest one, not necessarily the best one.

“Once that media-spun narrative is out there, from that point on all you hear is critiques of the narrative, deconstruction of the narrative, debates concerning the narrative, affirmations of the narrative, attacks on the narrative, with nobody talking about substance, because we don’t even know what substance is,” Wright said.

If you are not a fan of Rev. Wright, don’t bother to read the article.  The opening remarks of the author of the piece will have your eyes and ears flapping closed so fast that you won’t be able to see the words in the rest of the article even if your eyes wander over each and every one of them.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

By the way, I don’t agree with everything that is in the article.

James Fallows wrote the article I Wonder If President Obama Really Believes This. He starts with the following paragraphs:

Read the two bits of testimony by Congressional staffers — one Democratic, one Republican — about the nihilist freefire zone that is the modern Congress. Then consider President Obama’s Labor Day pledge:

“We’ve got a lot more work to do to recover fully from this recession,” Mr. Obama said. “I’m going to propose ways to put America back to work that both parties can agree to because I still believe both parties can work together to solve our problems.”

An objective observer must of course conclude that in fact there is no way “to put America back to work that both parties can agree to,” because not agreeing is, for today’s Republican leadership, a paramount goal.

Brad DeLong’s post James Fallows: I Wonder If President Obama Really Believes This makes the following remark:

Put me down as somebody who believes that the President of the United States should not say things that he believes to be untrue. He is then relying on people’s believing that they know what you really mean–that they are in on the con–to keep them from thinking that he is a fool.

Brad DeLong has captured exactly what it is that makes me so upset when the President acts like he can get some agreement from the Republicans.  Does Obama think it is Presidential to act the fool?

Obama’s recent pronouncements where he talks about what he almost really wants for tax policy and talks about veto if he doesn’t get what he wants is the beginning of the reversal of playing the role of the fool.  Let’s see if his actions back up his words.  Too many times before we have seen Obama negotiate with himself and lose.

The point of not responding to Obama’s latest remarks with “All is forgiven” is to keep the pressure on him to follow through with actions commensurate with the talk.

“Days of Rage” Occupy Wall St. on The Real News talks about,

Five thousand people demand Wall St. pay for the crisis

Here is the video clip.

Funny I haven’t heard about this demonstration on the Nightly Business Report nor any of the main stream media.

In the video below, Michael Moore describes how he thinks that liberals will come back to Obama.

I have perverted a reader’s emailed comment that talk is cheap to mean that it is one thing for President Obama to say he will veto the Republicans’ attempt to cut Medicare without also raising taxes on the wealthy. It is quite another to see him actually do it.

When Obama actually follows through on his threat, you may see the liberals coming home.

The summary of the video below comes from the article Occupy Wall Street organizer: Republicans are the ones waging class warfare on the Raw Story web site.

David Graeberm, one of the organizers of the “Occupy Wall Street” protest, said Monday on Democracy Now that it was Republicans, not President Barack Obama, who were engaged in class warfare.

“Well, generally speaking, when you hear a Republican talk about class warfare, you know they’re waging it,” he said. “I think that the easiest way to put what’s going on in perspective is to think the situation in the ’50s under Eisenhower, who was of course a Republican president, when tax rates on the wealthiest were actually 90 percent. I don’t remember the economy freezing up and falling apart in the 1950s. In fact, it was booming.”

“I think that for the last 30 years we’ve seen a political battle being waged by the super-rich against everyone else,” Graeberm added.

The more significant part of this video may be the discussion at the end about debt restructuring. David Graeberm talks about how debt restructuring between the wealthy or between countries is common place, yet debt owed by the poor to the rich is considered to be sacrosanct and should not be restructured.

Maybe this difference is a natural consequence of the wealthy and nations having the resources to hire good lawyers and large armies to fight their creditors whereas the poor have no power to resist their creditors if the poor should default.