Common's ‘poetry' should be uncommon

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• Dale Whiting posted at 5:01 pm on Tue, May 17, 2011.

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  Yes Susan, it was a very slow news day!

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• Cerulean posted at 9:14 pm on Tue, May 17, 2011.

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  Susan, you said that you call your mint-filled chocolates “vitamins”.

  Common has a ‘gold’ album (meaning that it sold more than 748,000 copies) called ‘Like Water for Chocolate’. On the cover of the album is a dark skinned woman dressed in white; she is drinking from a fountain that reads, “colored only”. The title of the album ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ comes from a novel written by Laura Esquivel. It is a love story, magical and realistic, where each chapter features a recipe and instructions for preparing a traditional Spanish meal. Nowhere in her story, nor in Common’s albums do they try to confuse mint-filled chocolates with vitamins.

  Susan, Common’s did not explain “Chicago Way”, the RNC did.

  By the way, I did not forget Jack Abramoff either ( to name just one Republican crook). Jack Abramoff’s dirty deeds lead to the convictions of two Bush admin. officials, Republican Representative Bob Ney and nine Republican Congressional aids (according to Wikipedia).

  The rest of the RNC hit piece demonstrates well “bigotry of low expectation” . No wonder the RNC can’t come up with a decent candidate for president.
  

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• sockratties posted at 8:06 am on Wed, May 18, 2011.

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  Susan says the reason Barack Obama became president is because of style over substance, charisma over character and compromise over conviction and because she calls mint-filled dark chocolates vitamins. Susan is the last person who should be judging style or substance. She does understand conviction, as she chooses conviction over reason. There is no doubt that the “dark chocolate” reference is also intentional.

  She is also quick to throw in the guilt by association component implying some problem with those who voted for Obama. She is a master of implication. Her cynical rhetoric smacks of Marc Anthony's "but these are honorable men" lines. She plays the race card very well but she plays it often.

  Susan paints Chicago as a racist, segregated city, using Common's own words. She uses Common as her instrument of condemnation AND yet quotes his opinion as agreement to support her bias.

  She makes no effort to understand that the First Lady has repeatedly shown she is as open to diversity as our nation is diverse. Susan mistakes diversity for deviancy. To Susan the two are synonymous. Diversity, to Susan, is a lowering of standards.

  Inclusiveness is scary to Susan, who thinks if people who don't look or act like the Bush model (God forbid!) they represent "cradle to casket welfare, its citizens polarized, its minorities in housing projects filled with fatherless households."

  Notice how quickly she went from a black rapper to a criticism of minority family values. Her politics are both schizophrenic and paranoid. Typical of her radical right agenda she wants freedom from control unless it relates to supporting the thought police. The stereotype she disapproves of doesn't agree with the stereotype she approves of. Stereotyping is stereotyping regardless of the target.

  What is Hell to Susan is an administration that doesn't wear her blinders. Susan says "If this reflects Obama's voters' values, America is in a heap of trouble."

  Well, Susan we're still in business after the pedophile Michael Jackson visited both the Reagan and Bush White Houses. Maybe we can make it through this.

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