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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (89945)	8/27/2010 10:48:54 AM
From: MJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

This is the only remarks I am making about Fauntroy's remarks. They don't deserve attention. Gee, Fauntroy is spewing venom---------when will we ever get back to the pre-Obama days when race was a non-issue in this great nation-------. Fauntroy' expresses distain for the billboards which I haven't seen-----Mr. Fauntroy needs to face the facts. Living in the D.C. environs for a number of years, I have witnessed a city go from a non-Aids city to one of the highest in the number of people infected with Aids. It is a fact that black women in D.C. are at risk for Aids------if the billboards help to bring some common sense to the questions surrounding sex and not-sex the billboards will have done a sevice. No. 1: Check the statistics----Washington D.C. has one of the highest rates of AIDS in the USA. No.2: Men in D.C. who have sex with Aids infected partners pass it to their wives and ultimately to the children via this unstoppable virus No.3: Black women in D.C. are particularly at risk------as are their children. No.4: Any woman, black or white seeing those billboards should go home and make their husband get an Aids test. If not married make their boyfriend, lover get an Aids test-----and get an Aids test themselves. With that information, she can make an informed decision about the status of the relationship;how to protect herself and her children and future children. No. 5: Often the truth is painful, it hurts-----Fauntroy is being sensational and bombastic with his remarks in order to discredit people of all races who identify with an American grassroots movement popularly called The Tea Party. No. 6: As a woman I only wish that bill boards educating women had gone up in the 1990's warning women in D.C. of the scourge of AIDS and throughout the country. "The coalition says a growing billboard campaign targeting black women sparked outrage among the African-American leaders for claiming that black children are an "endangered species" because of high rates of unintended pregnancies, teen births, HIV-AIDS infections and abortions. abcnews.go.com

To: lorne who wrote (89945)	8/28/2010 7:10:03 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224748

By LAURA MECKLER WASHINGTON—The string of bad news about housing, employment and economic growth has led Democrats to an inescapable conclusion: the economy is not likely to improve in time to help them in the fall elections. Congressional Democrats and the White House will continue their attempts to enact policies they believe will boost the economy—and which are also aimed at persuading voters they are working to make things better. But some officials acknowledge it is too late for these initiatives to change the economic situation ahead of the Nov. 2 elections. "We begin early voting in about 33 days. It would be hugely unrealistic to anticipate some kind of monumental economic turnaround between now and when people start casting our votes," said Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, who faces a tough re-election race. "I'm having to deal with the reality of what is. You can't wish it away. What is, is." A series of disappointing economic reports has made clear that won't be the case. The most recent one came Friday, when the government reported that the economy grew at a much slower pace in the second quarter than previously estimated. The gross domestic product, a broad measure of economic output, grew at a 1.6% annual rate, down from an initial estimate of 2.4%, and slower than 3.7% in the first quarter. Republicans say the Democratic agenda is to blame for the bad economic news. "Today's disappointing GDP report caps off another week's worth of evidence that President Obama must change course and abandon his job-killing policies to end the uncertainty that is keeping people out of work," House Minority Leader John Boehner (R., Ohio) said Friday. Amid the continuing economic weakness, some nonpartisan analysts now believe there is a good chance Democrats will lose their majority in the House. Last week, the Rothenberg Political report downgraded the re-election chances of five House Democrats, and the Cook Political Report did the same with 10 House Democrats.