CARD CHECK and The Facebook Obama Poll - "Strongly Approve" vs "Disapprove"

I knew it when I saw the invitation to vote on my opinion of Obama that there would be trouble.

After I voted and saw that my personal opinions were published for others to see how I voted that there would be even more trouble for me.

I struggle to keep my personal life and my blog life as separate as possible.

Some of you figure "Well why don't you just give your friends the URL to your 6 darned blogs and allow them to read your arguments that you have built up over time?"

I choose not to. I do not want my personal friends posting on my blogs and coloring their comments based on their personal knowledge of me. In fact, my blog debates have actually strengthened my hand in personal debates because I can see the patterns that progressives use in their debates and thus I can hone my comebacks based on having battled them already.

So here is how it went.

I received a Facebook Poll from a friend of mine who was the biggest Obama cheerleader during the campaign. A near daily e-mail promoting the wonders of Obama and any slightest hint of RACISM executed by the evil Republicans graced my Inbox.

It was no surprise to me that this same person voted "Strongly Approve" of Obama. I did not notice that Facebook was publishing individual votes. I did see that the category that was running strongest was "Strongly Disapprove".

The categories were:

• Strongly Approve
• Approve
• Neutral
• Disapprove
• Strongly Disapprove

Now get this - I would throw away the votes of the "Strongly Disapprove" just as quickly as I would the "Strongly Approve". These are the bigoted voters, the ideologues and partisans who would vote that way regardless of the question about Obama. Likewise their votes would be inverse if the question was about a Republican.

After I voted and then approved the poll to be propagated to others - I KNEW I WAS IN TROUBLE.

I got my first response from a family friend who asked the simple question "Why"? To which I replied "Why What"?

Then a frat brother of mine replied. He was seen years ago calling one of his line brothers "A damned Republican" so I know how he has me pegged despite my claims of being a Conservative Independent.

I noted that neither of them were prompted to reply to the "Strongly Approve" response from the first mutual friend.

Recall that I noted previously about the Field-Negro blog - BQPFRCs prefer Black people who agree with them even if that person is not able to articulate their reasons for agreement more than they tolerate a Black person who disagrees with them and can defend their points. THIS is what is at play right now.

I don't view President Obama as an INDIVIDUAL. I view him as the titular head of a MACHINE. This machine just happens to control every single institutional seat in the forces that control Black America. Recall a few weeks ago in an in-person debate with two of my friends I was asked to disconnect the LOCAL situation with the Black community from the NATIONAL issues. I saw this as laughable. It was only done in the context of debate with them seeking to neutralize my argument and thus have an "Obama vs George Bush" argument.

To pretend that there is no connection between the local issues within the Black community and that the push to gain more nationalized POWER so that these issues can be addressed is LAUGHABLE. I have spent several years plotting out the "Climb to the Next Plataea" strategy of the BQPFRC. Why on earth would I abandon this for one debate, as they wanted me to?

Think about it folks - I sat in front of two educated Black men who said "We are not talking about the Black community now. We are talking about the nation". Then they said "Most of the problems within the Black community are cultural in nature. Politics are not going to resolve them". To remind you - my come back to the second claim was to tell my friend - "Don't tell ME this as a means of obtaining a forbearance from seeking to hold the local officials that are failing our community accountable! The NEXT TIME some politician that is favorable to you seek to troll the Black community seeking votes by promising a POLITICAL fix to what you just told me is a CULTURAL problem I want you to preemptively stop him from exploiting our community as such". Do you see what is at work here? They want to retain maximum advantage by framing the debate toward the subjects that are favorable to their agenda.

I see Obama as their evidence that their policies are working. Again - as long as they get us to look at the Obama portrait on the wall rather than the painful realities in the streets - their arguments have a chance of withstanding the inspection of those who are willing to separate their own local issues with the national success of the Democratic Party. This is the foundation of my "Increased Headcount as Proof of Racial Progress" theory. Obama, not the schools, the violence on the street or the tepid economic conditions in our communities should be used as the inference of Black Progress.

This is so pervertedly like the "Republican tendency" to measure American economic health by looking at the rich and how they have prospered while ignoring the poor. BQPFRC do politically what others receive scorn for economically.

The key lesson that I have learned in debating BQPFRCs is that if we enter into a debate without a transparent framework - THEY WIN. They are going to bring forth debate issues that might, for example, rely on the happiness and pride felt by the Black community in the election of a Black president. This "pride" is not supposed to be some fleeting emotion but instead is "hard currency" as proof of his power to motivate Black folks who have long been oppressed. We are not supposed to consider how so many of the issues that were their strongest points of contention with the previous administration continue today:

• Both wars continue - yet the Anti-War marches have stopped
• War spending was problematic yet the Federal Democrats recently took what was an $80 billion war funding request and grew it into a $106 billion spending package
• "Faith Based Initiative"? Where is the scrutiny of this program that was dogged out repeatedly?
• "No Child Left Behind"? Most certainly the Black talk show hosts have departed their battle stations on that one

The list goes on and on and on. It shows that so much of the key points which worked to anger the Black Establishment - were in fact more partisan than heartfelt.

I have the "out of touch" position that with INCUMBENCY comes accountability. This is the reverse of the "Increased Headcount Theory". For our community to keep blaming outsiders is a benefit only for the external entity that we have latched onto, insuring their growth while our community continues to suffer........with "Obama Limited Edition Commemorative Plates in our China Cabinets".