Somebody Need To Tell: Shook Ones Edition
If Mobb Deep were to remix the classic song Shook Ones for today’s politics, we’d see a bedraggled collection of Republican pundits, U.S. senators and PR shills for al Qaeda huddled under the “scared to death and scared to look” banner.
Teflon Don President Barack Obama continues steamrolling halfway crooks with a ground-breaking Supreme Court nominee, a slamming speech to the Muslim world and by making headway on finding placement for Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Yo Quiero a Seat on the Supreme Court
First off, somebody needs to tell Fox (Faux) News commentators, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh and some senators that white ain’t always right.
These guys are shocked, SHOCKED! that SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor would base judiciary decisions on her own life experiences. Before we learn empathy and even after we acquire it, we see things from where we’re at, and where we’ve been. Those with higher-order thinking skills then try to see things from the other guy’s perspective.
To presume that only white men are capable of being dispassionate and objective is foolish, stupid and dare I say it (and I durst), racist.
Super Mohammed
With Europe now willing to take some Gitmo prisoners off our hands and a former detainee’s interview being published, somebody needs to tell Republican senators (and a few Democrats too) that the prisoners in Guantanamo are neither super villains nor members of the Legion of Doom.
The recent dust-up about housing detainees in the U.S. has folks shook like these guys are Magneto and need special super-powered cells to hold them. Truth: We’ve got folks waaaaaaaaay worse than this locked up in the U.S. Our serial killers, child rapists and mass murderers make the dudes in Guantanamo look like, well, religious nutjobs, and religious nutjobs generally get their ass handed to them in a shank fight. What’s worse is that many of these guys bore no ill will toward the U.S. before they got snatched off a Kabul street corner and tossed into Gitmo. But now? They’re mad as hell and fiending for a piece of apple pie, American Pie-style.
Recruitment’s Down All Ovah
On a related note, Obama’s Cairo speech set on track his plan to end the “cycle of suspicion and discord” with the Middle East. It was a small gesture of conciliation and respect that moved even many skeptical hearts across the 
Muslim world, and put the false mullahs, extremists and opportunists in full frenzy mode.
Al Qaeda is starting to see this skinny brother from Chicago for what he really is: a major threat to recruitment. Well, there’s strength in numbers—maybe they can give their Republican brothers a call.
