The President used his first ever oval office address to set forth a “battle plan” for cleaning up the disaster in the Gulf. Armed for political battle he admitted that both he and the government are besieged by the spill and cannot guarantee that their battle plan would work.

A careful analysis of his speech reveals that the only battle plan he has is the plan to battle for “cap and trade.”

I thought that this speech was supposed to be about answering when the leak would stop, how people who have been put out of work will be put back to work and how to make the people whole.

Read an excerpt from Dr. Metzler's forth coming book!

In my view, The Negro Problem in 2008 is part law, part politics, part oppression, part internalized oppression and part ideology. As America becomes more polarized into red states and blues states, into liberals and conservatives, into right, left, and even further into black and white, racism has become even more pronounced if not more difficult to identify. The Negro Problem of 2008 is helped along willingly by blacks whose sense of inferiority and internalized oppression so blind them that they too deal in oppressive and denigrating images for profits. Working hand in hand with the white executives who profit from those images and the white liberals who justify this denigration, they too add grist to the mill of oppression and exclusion.