Barack Obama has brought International prestige and acclaim to the United States with the winning of the Nobel Peace prize. While the prize was shocking to many, if the citizens of United States would close their eyes and remember why they voted for him they would realize that he deserves and earned the Nobel Peace Prize. I can not say that I necessarily agree or even know clearly the rationale of the Nobel committee for awarding the Nobel Peace prize to Barack Obama but I can articulate why I think he deserves the prize.
Barack and Michelle Obama deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for first of all being able to transcend themselves. In a world that frequently says you can’t and in a country that had never had a President of color The Obama’s said “Yes We Can”. They said Yes We can and Did. Barack Obama did not come from a two parent home with Daddy throwing him up to the sky every night, Barack Obama even mentions that he comes from a home where people may have told him they were scared of black men because he was raised by his caucasian grandmother. President OBama’s history and his subsequent accomplishments are a beacon of light to every child around the world who experiences controversies and problems in their lives. The ability of Barack Obama to overcome himself and his environment is a world class accomplishment, Nobel Prize worthy because one of the hardest things for people to do is to overcome themselves. Many great thinkers have written about this Napoleon Hill, recitations of the words of Jesus and others.
Barack Obama deserves the Nobel Prize by helping to prove to the world that the United States is not full of racists who hate black people and that the notion that an American Dream is possible for all is a reality not a notion for whites only. In a sociology class I learned about the third generational theory that all European racial groups who come to the United States can meld into the fabric of the United States and eventually become white or plain American, whereas people of color Asians, Blacks, Latinos, were subsequently out of luck and could never really melt because of their race into an American characteristic. Barack Obama and the United State shattered this myth by voting for him as President by actually implementing the words of Martin Luther King “not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”. The various races of the United States gave Barack Obama a mandate. Barack Obama was not a president installed by force, given to the United States by some International Super Power he was democratically elected by the American people who said that we don’t care about race anymore just someone willing to work for our interests.
As for the significance of Barack Obama post election we the American People seriously hope that he will use the slogan YES WE CAN to solve our problems as well as take the attitude of YES WE CAN to the world and help solve their problems. As for what has gone wrong with the Presidency up to know, by and large Obama and the Democrats refuse to ignore the voices that did not elect them. The only way Obama can keep his promises is to ignore the voices of dissension and keep a straight path and fulfill his promise.
While the United States faces amazing obstacles that the president inherited from the previous administration, unemployment, foreclosures, bank closures, and social upheavals the president of the United States has demoted himself to the President of Chicago, winging him up is Oprah Queen of the world. One wonders if the bid for the Olympics is a true desire for the city of Chicago or just a power play to see if Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama can be crowned King and Queen of World Influence.
While Oprah and Barack seek to be anointed King and Queen of the world ie. First Black President of the United States and Richest Black woman in the world , one wonders why the concept of solving very real problems in the city they call home is one challenge that they seem not to be too interested in solving. Currently Barack Obama seems to be not too interested in solving Americas problems but getting the Olympics to Chicago, just like he did not seem to be too interested in solving Chicago’s problems but being president of the United States .
The Quest for the Olympics seems to be very fake and shallow when there are young men and women beating each other to death on the streets of Chicago.
The quest for the Olympics seems to be a facade when a cold winter is approaching and there are individuals who may not have heat to heat there homes in Chicago or in Barack Obama’s case the United States.
These are problems that effect all cities not just Chicago but these are problems that Chicago seems not to be interested in taking care of. To the King and Queen of the World the very real problems of Chicago do not exist for they are essentially saying to the poor of Chicago “LET THEM EAT THE OLYMPICS”
Finally the caveat in the Chicago quest for the Olympics is that they are not that major of a city. For some of the Olympians this will be there first and only trip to the Olympics. Honestly now where would you want to be in the summer of 2016 in the mean streets of Chicago or on a Sunny beach in RIO. Ask the fallen flight of RIO to Paris where they would have rather been. RIO to PARIS. Straight Shot………..
The arrest by Henry Louis Gates by police for disorderly conduct after being accused of breaking into his own home is quickly being associated in my mind with incidents such as the Katherine Johnson case where police wrongly kicked the door down in her home after thinking she was a drug dealer killing her and lying to cover the killing up by saying she had a gun. The profession of police is quickly becoming like other professions where results are not measured and one can readily blame those you are supposed to serve for why there is an extreme need for your services, ie. in some cases educators blame children for not learning when they are given checks for performing the service of teaching. The profession of policing is quickly becoming the profession of getting a check and doing anything and saying anything to make sure that check is collected and not protecting.
The irony about Henry Louis Gates and his situation is that his door was jammed in, indicating that at some point a real person had actually tried to break into his house and no one was around. A reasonable human being and police officer would have noticed this and showed some concern after Mr. Gates showed ID and offered to file a police report. Instead after Mr. Gates showed ID to the police officer, the police officer called for backup which indicates the officer thought he was being handed a fake ID or did not believe that Henry Louis Gates lived there. Therefore when Henry Gates entered the porch of his home the police charged him with a trumped up charge of disorderly conduct violating Gates Rights to be secure in his own home a fundamental constitutional right.
More and more the charge of disorderly conduct is becoming skewed with a United States Citizens right to protest, with their rights to freedom of speech, and in the Gates case to be able to reside peaceably in their own home. The charge of disorderly conduct is increasingly being used to substitute for disagreeing with the police which is not disorderly. The charge of disorderly conduct is literally rendering American citizens to the role of slaves and the police as overseer who have too much discretion to use this claim when Americans may be tired, hungry, and appaled by the treatment that is being meted out to them by the “authorities”.
There was a time when minority people understood that just because they shared the same race with an individual this did not mean that these people shared the same agenda or in the least they were allowed to criticize or critique these minorities and what they represented and stood for. This was never so illustrated as in the contradictions between WEB Dubois and Booker T. Washington. Prior to WEB Dubois’s death he said the following to Ralph Mcgill about Booker T. Washington and Washington’s benefactors:
“I wish you had gone,” I said . “Joel Chandler Harris was a good man, as were his closest associates.”
“No,” he replied, “it was no use. He and they had no question in their minds about the status of the Negro as a separated, lesser citizen. They perhaps were kind men, as you say. They unhesitatingly lived up to a paternalistic role, a sort of noblesse oblige. But that was all. The status slowly had become immutable insofar as the South’s leaders of that time were concerned. Booker T. Washington had helped them rationalize it. I do not think that he meant to do so. But he did. In fact, he put a public stamp of acceptance on it there in your city when he spoke at the Atlanta Exposition…………in that same speech he implicitly abandoned all political and social rights.”
The recent nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the supreme court and the blank check endorsement of her by organizations that are for the advancement of minorities is highly troubling. Sotomoyar has almost publicly avowed in her appeals court decisions that she does not believe that race based discrimination exists for anyone white, black, or green unless maybe you are Hispanic.
The case African Americans should be most aware of is the King vs American Airlines case. The Kings an African American couple who prepurchased tickets were asked to get off a plane because the plane was full. There were other non-black individuals on the plane, some who had purchased their tickets on standby and were not asked to leave the plane. A lower court ruled that this black couple had been discriminated against, upon appeal to Sotomayor the case was overturned and they were directed to file a complaint with a federal agency instead of a lawsuit. This is clearly a racist attitude towards black people. In another case a black nurse was fired from a hospital the nurse claimed it was because of race, age and disability. Sotomayor threw out the race and age claims and allowed the disability claim to precede. The above cases are an obvious case of a potential supreme court judge who is not for African American individuals.
However Sotomayor is loyal and ethnocentric in her decisions regarding Hispanic plaintiffs. In a decision involving a sexual discrimination in a case where one Hispanic made lewd remarks to another Hispanic and the woman who was the target of the remarks hit the man who made the remarks resulting in a fight and both individuals being fired Sotomayor prevailed for the plaintiff the woman who threw the first hit. While the lower courts who ruled against the plaintiff probably thought that the plaintiff should have reported him immediately to management instead of hitting him. Violence in the workplace can be just as harmful as sexual harassment. The contradiction of telling the black non-violent couple to report their problems to a federal agency and ruling for a violent Latino who initiated a fight at work is clearly a contradiction that should be examined.
In addition , the appointment of Sotomayer by President Obama conflicts with his statements that he was highly disturbed with the disparities in drug sentencing by the government as well as to his commitment to his constitutional law background. In. U.S. vs Santa Sotomayor accepted evidence from a search warrant that had been vacated and was seventeen months old. While some would say that a criminal was convicted and the illegal search should stand this is clearly not what the founders of the constitution meant when they made the fourth amendment against illegal searches and seizures. I don’t think the writers of the constitution would think that the kings representatives holding an invalid warrant should have the right to knock someones door down. I don’t have to be a constitutional scholar to figure this one out.
While liberals are rejoicing at the appointment of Sotomayor by Barack Obama, they should be mindful of the fact that Sotmayor is a protege of the First George Bush who appointed Clarence Thomas and like Clarence Thomas she is Catholic. Clarence Thomas has been a reliable voice against blacks and the little striving man. Sotomayor is probably likely to walk in the shoes of Thomas unless of course if you are Hispanic and Sotomayor may be likely use her Latino wisdom to rule in favor of Latinos; unlike Thomas who has no race loyalty. President Obama is perfectly aware of the fact that Sotomayor was appointed by a republican and considers it a plus, the other plus he has for her is that she was a tough prosecutor. This flies in the face with Obama’s murmurings that he was concerned about persons of certain races and classes treated unjustly by the Justice System. Viewing the video below, one wonders what party Obama represents and if he is a trojan let in by those who so wanted to believe that he was the “Black Hope”
One hundred and five years ago WEB Dubois wrote “The problem of the twentieth century is the color line” As we are well into the dawn of the twenty-first century the problem of the twenty-first century is still the color line. It may be a flipped color line but it is the color line and one should always be mindful of King’s words “not the color of a man’s skin but the content of their character”
As we prepare for the announcement of a New Supreme Court Justice the writing is on the wall that though black women have been part of this country since it’s founding there will not be a black female Supreme Court Justice. The major news outlets refuse to even consider that a black women will sit on the supreme court. However the big signal that a black women will not be the definite choice for the Supreme Court is the huge cover article that the Obama propoganda machine has negotiated on Michelle Obama with Time magazine, hitting the stands the same week that everyone speculates that Barack Obama will announce a new Supreme Court nominee in essence playing the Michelle card to Black women and those who care for them.
While it is refreshing to have a Black First Lady in the White House its becoming increasingly obvious that she has no or does not care to have any sway or bedtime influence on her husband as it relates to black women and their position in the Obama administration. The nonadvocacy of the aspirations of black females in the upper reaches in government have literally been squashed in the Obama administration. For the first time in sixteen years a black women will not hold a cabinet position in a presidential administration.
Unofficially from the Obama administration the cabinet position a black woman holds in the Obama administration is first lady. Never before has a first lady been trotted out and purveyed, what an example to black women, what an accomplishment she got married and managed to not be a welfare queen with ten children. There is a black first lady which is a wonderful and groundbreaking but I think most people expect it comes with having a black president.
The Michelle card has been played in many ways when it was pretty obvious that Barack Obama had no blood ties with the African American descendantsof western slaves, the connection of Obama to West Africa comparative to being Chinese versus Japanese or vice versa, the Obama supporters shouted out that Michelle was a descendant of West African slaves and his children would therefore carry on that legacy. African Americans and those who cared for African Americans thought that Michelle Obama was the prescription to the fact that Obama’s descendants were never enslaved and Obama would essentially be stealing the legacy of African American heritage to become president of the United States and to indicate that there was a new Nirvana of racial love in the United States.
What Obama’s administration as indicated by his one black cabinet appointee a position held by this black at the beginning of the Bush II administration is that Obama of interacial heritage and having gained the right to be president from his white mother’s U.S. citizenship does not identify in his mind, heart, or soul with black people. Obama is black on the outside and white on the inside and feels no loyalty to blacks. Blacks for Obama are a means to an end. This has been a key trait of Obama as politician the strong tendency to bit the hand that feeds him. This is strongly exemplified in the incident of Obama giving a now convicted felon contracts to run a housing project in his disctrict that lacked the very nesscessary ingredient of Heat in icy cold Chicago. When Obama’s constituents called to complain their calls were never returned. More on the Rezko deal can be found here. Obama’s identification with his caucasion side comes out at time with an almost exageratted claim to blackness I have a black wife, I play basketball, I talk slang a self proclaimed wigger is what Obama’s exagerations shout.
In any event the Times article on Michelle Obama at such an oppurtune time can mean only one thing a black women will not be nominated for Supreme Court Justice and if you don’t like it just read the nice Times article on Michelle Obama its so nice to have a black first lady is it not aren’t all of us black women lucky, be grateful for what you have and what you can get righto!!!!!!
Man I got summer hating on me cause I’m hotter than the sun
Spring hating on me cause I ain’t neva sprung
Win-ter hating on me cause I’m colder than ya’ll
And I will neva I will neva I will neva FALL
I’m being hated by the season
So fuck ya’ll who hating for no reason
For the first time since maybe the constitution was written we have a President that actually cares about the people. We have a president that actually wants to make the United States “ideal” of Liberty and Justice for All, real. While I have wavered and waned on my support of Barack Obama during the election. Since he has been elected the only behavior I’ve seen from Barack Obama is a caring and concern for the American people that is unprecedented. The haters coming out of the woodwork have literally stunned me. I can honestly say that I was unaware of the hate that certain white people felt for blacks until Barack Obama was elected. I would have never dreamed that so many self proclaimed Republicans and Caucasians associated Blacks with watermelon and fried chicken.
The two incidents that I’ve heard about involved individuals on the government pay roll. This is really a cause for concern that in the first case, a mayor of a town sent an email with the following picture to his list:
The Mayor says the "President" Will Not have an Easter Egg Hunt But A Watermelon Hunt this Easter
stating there will not be an Easter Egg hunt this spring at the White House but a watermelon hunt. The second incident involved cops who stated on their face book pages that:
“the rose garden will be turned into the watermelon garden” that there will be a “KFC set up right in front of the white house”
The scary part about these comments is that these individuals interact with the public. We will never know how many people have not been hired, who’ve been falsely accused and arrested, and wronged just because of racists in the woodwork.
Meanwhile the conservative Republicans are meeting and they don’t have a clue why they lost the White House and a large number of congressional seats. This is really quite funny that they fail to realize that the reason they lost is because of their lack of concern and ignorance of the needs of ordinary people. Instead of utilizing a strategy of how can we show that we are concerned and how can we win in 2016. They are insulting the President of the United States. They are using the same tactics that caused them to lose the White House by close to double digits. “Pathetic” The only people who are fooled are the racists. WAKE UP REPUBLICANS!
(Republicans)
I been in and out the bank bitch
While ya’ll asshole niggas been on the same shit
I flush em and watch em go down the drain quick
Two words you neva hear WAYNE QUIT
Cause wayne win and they lose
I call them April babies cause they fools
And while they snooze we UP
It appears that one of CNN’s main purpose is to keep the racial pot stirred. They don’t even make it a stew they only want to report on one race “the black race”.
I have previously reported on Soledad Obriens negative attitude towards black women. She has said and I quote “maybe now that Michelle Obama is First Lady, they’ll get some self respect for themselves. “ This followed a segment of insults to black women that for me personally is unprecdented. Well guess what Soledad is slated to do another segment on Black America.
Well CNN guess what I will be reviewing the transcript from CNN’s black women segment and making a complaint to the FCC for defemation and the spreading of black lies about Black Americans.
With CNN the insults and the attacking of Black Americans is so insidious the early morning coverage of the innaguration of Barack Obama had a White Anchor who at the beginning of the coverage looked out over a sea of black faces and said all these people have come to see Barack Obama will have to return home to no jobs. I had to laugh because I knew that if you even took a $400 bus trip to the National Mall you had to have a job. The anchor later redeemed herself by singing like she was with her best friends with a group of women from Lousisiana; therefore proving what I always knew that there is always someone like you in every race. She meant no harm. She was a likeable sort, and she was willing to come to some sort of racial understanding. Unlike Soledad Obrien, who will never come to an understanding of black people, who has built her whole identity and career on potraying the seemy side of black life and has eesentially become a racial pimp, pimping her career on black people. The prior anchor redeemed herself. Soledad will never redeem herself.
During the King/Inauguration coverage Soledad Obrien was in character. She thinks she’s an expert on Black America and therefore since she’s never heard all of the King I have a dream speech she assumes no one has especially Kings fellow black folks . She walks up to a woman and screws up her face and says have you heard all of the I have a Dream Speech. The woman says yes, Soledad’s face falls as if to say your’re a smart “one” coon. She quizzes her and has to move on becasue this woman is just too smart. She does not rest until she finds a balck person as dumb as she wants them to be.
In the mean time, an anchor interviews a white girl who is so obviously with a white guy who’s tall, his face is fresh, and he’s chomping at the bit to be on the news. The girl keeps talking about he and him and he did this. Well the anchor identifies her him, it’s a black man who isn’t even in the shot. The white woman says no it’s him and points to the white guy. I suppose this particular anchor thought that the only reason a white woman would be out there in 18 degree weather is because she’s with or trolling for a black man. NOT TRUE!!!!
I suppose I truly realized CNN has race problems when this morning they are continuously running segments stating that blacks are shall we say fanatical about Barack Obama. They think he’s can do anything they are saying, keep their houses from being foreclosed on, give them a job, give them a job. Well ummmmmm isn’t this the platform he ran on. Isn’t this Obama’s own platform hope, jobs, stopping foreclosures. This is what he promised he would do for all Americans and this is why “all” americans voted for him. CNN keeps stirring the pot. All Americans are putting the same hope into President Obama.
Leaving us with the statement that set it all off:
“It’s not a Black America, It’s not a White America, It’s the United States of America”
Barack Obama
Maybe CNN in their Mocha Latte World missed this! The problem just may be the culture of CNN and not the “United States of America”
The other day a dear friend called me and said I’m coming to Atlanta for my fraternity meeting. We started to talk and I suppose he remembered that my sons father was in the same Fraternity he was in and he said I know he pays child support, he’s a Morehouse Alpha. I had to say no he does not pay child support. No one seems to want to make him pay child support and since Barack Obama has been elected he has not paid child support and probably won’t.
In Georgia we know that if there is a Democrat in office men are not going to support their children. I remember we had a Democratic Governor in Georgia and the child support workers were losing files, could not find a non paying father and were generally nonfeasent, misfeasent, and malfeasent.
In my case if anyone sees Philip Tracy Smith of Ellenwood, Georgia, a non-payer to at least two children one in Texas and one in Atlanta supposedly who owns a staffing agency and writes up mortgages and who’s license should be suspended please tell him to pay child support.
Furthermore if you want to know how I hooked up with him. I told him when we were thinking about dating that he just did not seem to be the sort of person I was interested in because he had a lot of problems. What did he do? He called his mother and had her tell me that he was a good person, he just had problems, but was a decent individual.
In addition I left him for talking about a woman who was just a friend too much. He slept outside of my door all night and asked for forgiveness. Who is he married to know? This woman. He is a certified rat.
Years later he’s not paying child support, though his Frat brother is sure that he is or should be and he’s not.
Finally as the senate looks to confirm Eric Holder as head of the Department of Justice who might also be a member of this fraternity, I’m not sure though my friend insisted on naming a long line of frat folks to me on the phone he did not mention Holder so he’s probably not; in any event all women should be mindful that Holder might be prepared to have the justice department look left while deadbeat dads refuse to pay child support.
Barack Obama’s recent trip to Hawaii came with photographs of his naked torso and tight abs. Nice picture for a president, the glam man but whoever protects Obama does not need to be protecting him, and if Obama is the one who persisted in staying beside a public beach and being accessible to the public. I urge him to remember Benazhir Bhutto who it looked like to me got her head shot off, but Pakistan says not, who insisted that she be a woman of the people and is know promptly dead. Obama’s handlers must take security seriously. We know he’s cute and all that fanatics don’t care about cute and will find a way to get their business done. Obama protect yourself, treat yourself and your family like all the other presidential families and keep security really high. It’s OK if we only see a glimpse of you. We don’t know if the picture of your abs were leaked or if it was a picture that someone actually got of you, but if it was a taken picture that you knew nothing about you should really revamp your security because it could have so easily been a bullet Protect yourself, no one wants Biden and nobody wanted Biden for president except you! Protect Yourself, we know you want to be a man of the people but hopefully at not the expense of losing your life. Envision a long life!
This year I have been amazed at the things happening before me in the media. I will never get over the Democrats in Michigan taking votes from Hillary Clinton and giving them to Barack Obama during the presidential primary and not hearing a peep about it except from Boston and LA media outlets. My previous blog entry covered the Anderson Copper episode on November 24, 2008 and their coverage of Black Women.
While everyone was in an uproar over Don Imus and his comments about black Female basketball players at Rutgers being Nappy Headed Hoes. No one seemed particularly concerned with the fact that CNN has aired a piece about black women that was doubly offensive, badly researched and just plain wrong. I have to admit that after contemplating the CNN piece I had to think that maybe my processing of the piece was over the top. Did I over react to the coverage and I have thought about this for days. At some point I even wondered if despite the fact that I had seen the coverage twice if I had somehow put words into the piece that were not there. In the modern day U.S. where Kings dream is played out everyday with black, white, red, and yellow children in schools and with adults in companies, and corporations and even in social situations. It was a little hard for me to believe that a major media outlet would make a racial attack on one group of people.
For me, personally the way CNN covers black people is just as offensive as historical coverage of whites calling blacks Niggers and Coons openly on T.V. in the 1950’s and 60″s. I find CNN’S coverage of black people and in this piece black women far more insidious and dangerous to black people than any noose hanging from a tree without a name or a color on it. The noose is objective and inanimate. If anyone feels offended by a noose it’s what they bring to the situation but CNN is actually telling people what to say and how to feel about black women and black people. They may say that it’s to benefit black women, but CNN’s coverage of Black women the other day made me want to hide. For me the coverage made me feel like some one had thrown me on the ground, pulled my legs open and looked in with a flashlight. It violated me.
As far as Michelle Obama is concerned I have not failed to notice Michelle is Black. Neither has my mother who keeps repeating slyly Safire in the White House. I find it particularly interesting that my mother uses this term because she’s never used it before. As a black woman I find it triumphant that a black woman is in the White House and I thinks it’s ground breaking. However what CNN is failing to pick up when they cover Michelle Obama at the expense of other black women (Quotes from CNN)
[ALLISON SAMUELS, "NEWSWEEK": When you look at television, we're either, you know, single mothers with a bunch of children or drug addicts or street walkers.]
[KAYE: Allison Samuels wrote this article for "Newsweek." She hopes and expects having Michelle Obama in the White House will help put an end to the stereotyping of African-American women, often portrayed as overweight, ignorant and angry.]
What CNN is failing to pick up is that as black people, as black women, we don’t care what black woman is in the White House and if she rolls her eyes stomps her feet and screams and these are the stereotypes we subscribe to. We don’t care we applaud it, and if she stomps her feet and gets loud we know why. I am African American and I am loud I admit it. In my case I have not always been loud . I used to be quiet as a mouse. I write this with tears in my eyes, becuase lately my tone is loud and strident and for those white women in particular who continually date black men and have black children after a while society has made them loud and strident too. If you choose to be culturally black you will eventually be a safire whether out loud or inside. We want Michelle to be a bonafide black woman in the White House and she has said that she’s the one who tells Barack Obama you’re not all that. I have even read it being described as her south side of Chicago roots make Barack Obama see reality. This is the safire in Michelle and this is what is admired. This is a real black woman in the White House. It does not matter what profession Michelle Obama has chosen Teacher, Attorney, House Wife, Stripper – (Italy and France). We admire her because she’s black and the first Black First Lady when all the rest have been white.
CNN fails to realize in their AC 360 piece on Michelle Obama as a role model, you don’t have to bring black women down to put her on a pedestal. She’s there. No one has to justify her existence who she is or why. She’s there. To attempt to cover Michelle Obama at the expense of black women not only insults the general population of black women but insults Michelle Obama also. She is the First Lady and that’s not negotiable.
As for CNN and their coverage of black women. I have heard black women stereotyped as the following:
[SAMUELS: We still have that negative image of black women being overweight and very loud and rolling their eyes and talking back and having these sassy one-liners all the time.]
I am familiar with the above stereotype. However I was not aware that all of the world and society thinks of black women as street walkers and drug addicts. This is indeed news to me and I would definitely be interested in seeing the research to back up these comments. I took a sociology class on interracial understanding many years ago with all races and we had to list our stereotypes about various races and the term street walker and drug addict was not associated with black people or for that matter was not a stereotype of a particular race. Hitler was a drug addict. In certain European countries they have drug addict areas. Places where individuals can go and use their drugs of choice. Prostitution is the oldest profession in the world and in Amsterdam women stand in the window and advertise their womanly charms. In London they have Pink brothels so people interested in paying for sex can get something in the middle of the afternoon. I don’t think anyone associates drugs and sex with any particular race. Anyone who says that the world views black women as prostitutes and drug addicts subscribes to a fallacy; and I don’t believe that these statements can be supported with real research.
CNN goes on to say about black women,
“OLIVIA FISHKIN, NEW YORK RESIDENT: The average African-American woman should take heed and hope that, with hard work and study, that they can also elevate themselves and aspire to become whatever they want to become.”
You know I don’t think that Michelle Obama when she met and married Barack Obama said gee if I marry this man I’m going to be First Lady. She became Barack Obama’s wife and he became president. The average women black or white unless they are Hillary Clinton is not going to go out and say golly gee if I marry this man, I’m going to be First Lady. As for Michelle Obama’s professional accomplishments I respect her for them but she won an athletic scholarship to Princeton and everyone knows the rumor about Ivy League colleges exposed by Larry Summers, Obama’s buddy, that if you are accepted into an Ivy League College you’re just going to get good grades no matter what. All you have to do is be accepted. Just like the NBA, not everyone is athletically gifted enough to get an athletic scholarship to Princeton like Michelle Obama. As for the six figure salary, she got that after her husband became a state Senator. We can not play the Emperors New Clothes game with the Obama’s but if we are playing the role model game lets be transparently honest. What is is.
CNN goes on to say,
[KAYE: What about her skin color? It's much darker than African- American celebrities like Beyonce or Halle Berry. Samuels says that may send the message black is beautiful.
SAMUELS: In the African-American community, a lot of times beauty is sort of determined by how light you are. And what I love about Michelle is that she's not that typical look.]
You know as a black woman I am familiar with the hurts of being browner. I am also familiar with the hurts of not being dark enough. I am not going to celebrate Michelle Obama’s darkness at the expense of my beautiful beautiful daughter or my mother , my mother like her father in her old age is looking more and more white versus black. My mother’s color has not saved her from hurt nor harm in life. Neither has the color of many of my friends. My daughter who is quite beautiful and tall, and at age eight looks like a petite black Asian woman went to pay for my gas and the store owner gave it to her, I had to track back and pay for it. I find it painful that she may be discriminated against because she is lighter and prettier. She has been discriminated against before because she was not dark enough and her features were not ethnic enough and it hurt me deeply. The Michelle Obama craze because of her skin color has me warning my daughter who is not even close to being sexually active not to have sex before marriage, because I don’t want anyone using her body and then throwing her away because she’s not dark enough.
A society that deals in a races color as a sex symbol ultimately wants what it want’s it’ own image. Maybe if CNN is concerned with the variety of black women they should try giving a black woman that is not the color of a paper bag a job as an anchor. Practice what you are trying to preach.
Finally CNN goes on to say,
KAYE: Michelle Obama’s physique may also light a fire under black women. Federal statistics show four out of five African- American women are overweight or obese. Mrs. Obama works out daily, often before her girls are even awake.
SAMUELS: You don’t necessarily look at a size zero and go, “OK, I can look like that” in fashion magazines, but you have this real- life woman, who’s a mother and a wife, who is making time to sort of work out and look good. And I think all of that is going to play a big role in African-American woman, you know, just sort of taking a step back and saying, “What can I do to be healthy?”
I am particularly concerned with the fact that CNN want’s to light a fire under my butt. I don’t think all of the exercise in the world will ever make me look like Michelle Obama. I am 5′3. I have large breasts like my grandmother and mother. She’s close to six feet and has small breasts and a big butt and she looks very big especially in the hips. I would be curious to know what size she wears and how much she weighs. I’d like to see her step up on the scale on TV and not get second hand knowledge about her size. If she’s working out I don’t see it, I did see it but it looks like the election may have made her gain weight, as I have since the election began. I think I’ll continue to look at celebrities as my radar for how I’m supposed to look. As for CNN there are a lot more white people in the United States than white people therefore there are a lot more white obese people in the United States. Since CNN is fond of picking up NBC’s cast off anchors maybe they could do what NBC has done, institute a National challenge for the whole United States regardless of color. I fail to see how a persons weight defines them as a person and health is important but in the context of this piece it’s just a cheap shot at black women.
As for CNN, CNN may want to look internally for why the piece on Michelle Obama was so negative towards black women. I am aware that some of the white women on staff at CNN are involved in interracial relationships with black men and vice versa. Years ago my Sunday entertainment was watching Lester Holt and one of the CNN anchor women and I knew that Lester was married but this current CNN anchor woman seemed not to care. In any event I think when someone referred to Obama as African American, a CNN representative went into a long sketch on Obama’s mother being white and how she had interacial kids. We all know that Obama is interracial but despite what some may think. He’s not where is because he’s interacial. He’s where he is because his white grandmother married to a white man set up a great example for him and demonstrated through example that anything is possible. It’s a great story that Barack Obama’s grandmother worked her way up from the secretarial pool to the Vice President of a bank. This is why Obama is where he is. Obama makes a great case for interacial adoption since his black father ran off and his white mother left him with his grandmother but I’m not seeing the case for interracial relationships. I’m seeing a case for stable relationships. I’m seeing that by marrying Michelle Obama, Barack Obama walked in the steps of his white grandparents in his desire for a more traditional lifestyle. He has a desire to be a husband and a father and have a traditional family life.
Erykah Badu Sings Southern Gurl – Every Black Girl Has A Vote and Every Black Girl Deserves to Be Respected Despite what CNN and Newsweek says
I have learned something about Anderson Cooper, whenever the producers of his show decide to air something controversial or distasteful that he does not want to be associated with he manages to not be on his own show Anderson Cooper 360 and hands the dirt bag to Soledad Obrien who as far as black people go will say anything distasteful, stereotypical or just plain out rotten about black people that she thinks will make her career. Well the last Anderson Cooper showed Soledad at her best in stereotyping Black Women. I also had to wonder as I watched the piece if Soledad had just swam across from Cuba, as she seemed totally unaware of the strides that black women have made outside of being someones wife. I had to wonder if Soledad had ever heard of Dr. Condeleeza Rice, on leave from Provost of Stanford University and current Secretary of State. The world has, but alas poor soledad must be suffering a language barrier. I am still wondering why she hasn’t done a piece on Hispanics yet, I think Latin America is having a really rotten drug war that’s resulting in a loss of lives. I would be interested in seeing this issue covered. I am concerned that the drug war may come over the border.
In any event, last night the gremlin resembling Soledad Obrien did a piece on black women and how Michelle Obama will elevate black women and how they the world sees black women and how they see themselves. As a women maybe ten years younger or more than Soledad Obrien, I had to think that her piece was hackneyed and not very current. As usual Soledad Obrien’s information was totally biased and badly researched. The miltimedia headlights included “Medea” and some other man who dresses as a woman in the piece, big fat women rolling around the screen, and children hollering. Evidently the producer of the piece is not aware that Medea is a man. The producer is also not aware that Tyler Perry tries to highlight Medea’s positive qualities and Medea is a satire on African Americans. It’s not a stereotype but almost a look at the past and maybe while some of us may not be like that “anymore” or have ever been like that, we may need to be like this in some ways is Tyler Perry’s message is. If anyone is familiar with the literature of Lindon Hills by Gloria Naylor who writes fiction on black class and status issues, they will notice the thread of Linden Hills a book by Naylor in Perry’s Work. Naylor essentially says in Linden hills by having the rich people live at the bottom of the hill and the poor at the top the higher they (Striving blacks) climb, the further they fall in terms of morals, family life,relation to God etc. I think Tyler Perry tries to draw the same parallel. Unless you have an extremely low IQ I don’t think that Perry expects viewers of his movies to think that his movies are real life and MEdea is a real woman.
Soledad had one Newsweek pundit saying society stereotypes black women as street walkers and drug addicts. The show also gave statistics on black women and obesity. She also conveniently mentioned blacks and skin color and how Michelle Obama’s dark skin would raise the esteem of dark skin people. She mentioned Beyonce and Hallie Berry as sex symbols and said we had no dark skin sex symbols. I think Angela Basset, Janet Jackson, Alliyah, Erykah Badu and Rihanna qualify for me as women who are brown or do not have traditional European features. I think girlfriends, produced by Kelsey Grammar who was a McCain supporter presents a multi colored cast of sexy African American women. Finally Soledad did an interview with Faye Waddeldon and said that Michelle Obama elevates the possibility of what black women can do. Personally while having a law degree and a job is commendable, as a woman I respect women who go to the top of their professions not who just perform the act of acquiring , for Barack or Michelle Obama even a brief before the Supreme Court would have earned a tremendous amount of respect from me. As for Faye Waddledon I remember Faye Waddledon from when I was ten years old, Pre-Cosby. The world has changed a lot in those years. Has she done any new research in twenty years she’s still saying the same thing she said twenty years ago. HUH”"”"”"”"”"”" I suppose Condoleeza Rice was not the first female National Security adviser and the first Black Female Secretary of State. Black Women have already been elevated and the Republican Party did it. The same people attacking black women are the same people who attacked and are attacking Sarah Palin. They hate women. They do not love Michelle Obama, they are attempting to compensate for her lack by attacking black women. They are attempting to build her up by comparing her with a social problem. All I want Michelle to do is comb her hair, put on a suit, and keep her children’s hair neatly combed and done at all times. This is not rocket science, the women who are the targets of CNN’s piece do it well all the time, maybe they would be more suited to the role of First Lady rather than a Harvard trained Attorney. Michelle’s job is First Lady (WIFE) lets just pray she can take care of her ceremonial duties without a hell to Oblivion dress on, let’s hope she knows how to be a good wife and mother if she can do this she would have met the criteria for the job of First Lady. There is no degree requirement for First Lady!
In the the year 2009 America will be celebrating a ground breaking event, it’s first Black President. Unfortunately what CNN has failed to realize on a recent report on Michelle Obama and how she breaks the mold of Black women is that this historic election of a black man in the white house was done step by step and partially shattered by the positive media examples of black women and men in the media. Personally I believe the presence of a smart articulate black woman such as Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice was critical to Barack Obama becoming President. When the United States had no idea what was happening in the Bush Administration Condi, Secretary of State was able to explain to us in a graceful, feminine, kindly way what was going on in the world. In the Bush administration Condi was our light.
In any event the most ground breaking thing that a black women did this year for me was make a video. I am a horror buff. I just love the movie Silent Hill as well as Hostel. So when I saw the following video by Rihanna since I rarely see black people in a horror genre I was thrilled.
This is ground breaking to me (it says something about please click on a link thanks, I have not clicked on the link and do not know where it leads, as far as this blog is concerned please do not click on anything other than the youtube play icon.):
When my twelve year old first learned that Barack Obama had become president, he was flabbergasted, he asked me, should I go out and take drugs? Should I advocate Baby Killing and have my future girlfreinds have abortions? Is this what it’s going to take for me to be successful in life. Personally I wondered the same thing, it does seem like the drug addicts, abortion ladies, and alcoholics seem to be winning the game of life. Unfortunately what the economy has shown us is their wins mean a net loss for the United States in terms of quality of goods, innovations, intelligence and creativity. Lack of integrity, falsity, and immorality are wrecking our economy.
I explained to my child that just because things or people are popular this does not mean that these things are ordained by God. After the election I explained to him about Hitler having a mandate also, and what resulted from his mandate was the holocaust. I further explained to him that just as the news reported that the United States was experiencing economic distress during our election cycle, Germany was experiencing economic hardships and voted in Hitler. I further explained to him that if it’s a choice of losing your house and voting for a pro-life issue when you would never dream of having an abortion, or voting for a coke sniffer then most people are going to vote for the person on the party ticket they think will help them personally, and the Republicans had not quite convinced the majority of the United States that earns less than $40,000 that they would be there for them, the Republicans got stuck at $250,000 with Joe the Plumber and they seemed to be against the economics of a whopping 90% of the population so Obama won. This seemed like a good answer at the time. It satisfied him for two weeks.
Then he had to ask again, how could God let a baby killer be president of the united States. I have to admit that the term baby killer is not too strong a word when Barack OBama advocates abortion in the ninth month of pregnancy. My personal oppinion is if the baby is alive then C-section or induced labor is the answer and there is no such thing as aborting a baby who’s in the womb at month 9. In any event I had to explain to him that the Bible states that only a remnant of individuals will go to Heaven. This means an insy weensy bit I explained to him. I further explained to him that this is the weensy bit of people that The Bible and God felt were truly Godly. I explained to him those people who knowingly voted for Barack Obama knowing his abortion policies probably will not see God. I explained to him that God also spoke of Churches that were not preaching the word of God and the leaders of these Churches and their flocks probably would not see God either. The bible discusses False prophets and any leader of a church that calls Obama or the Obama’s Godly will most likely not see the Heaven that the bible speaks about. My son saw the flock of Ebeneezer Baptist church rejoicing when Barack won the election. I had to explain to him that this was not a Godly church even if it was the church Martin Luther King Jr. grew up in, Martin Luther King said not by the color of our skin but the content of our character. Obama has severe character flaws, I told my son that Obama’s mother had been an athiest and what we learn in the first couple of years of life according to some psychologists is who we are, if Obama could carelessly advocate abortion at nine months then this was most likely because of his upbringing. Finally I said that Obama was the result of an unplanned pregnancy and his mother may have told him many times I wish you were never born, you destroyed my life, as Obama said his daughters lives would be messed up by an unplanned pregnancy. Obama may have a secret wish to not be in this world despite his successes and may wish that his mother would have aborted him even at nine months.I told him I loved him and that the goal that he should have in life is to develop a personal walk with God. He should not be influenced by the evil in the world but should try to walk in the footsteps of Jesus.
I’ve done a blog search of my blog with parenthesis “blackhippychick.wordpress.com”. None of the abortion posts come up. Google is censoring anti Obama posts unless it deals with Obama’s wifes dress. Is this scary or what?
Obama’s list of technology gurus includes former IAC/InterActive executive Julius Genachowski, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Google head of global development initiatives Sonal Shah. Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig, a vocal advocate of radically reduced copyright restrictions, served as a technology adviser to Obama’s primary campaign but hasn’t held an advisory role since.
I think the fact that the Google CEO is up for a role in the new Obama administration probably explains why the fact that Obama supports ninth month abortion in my blog is not being indexed by google.
Finally, when a president looks to putting the Kings of technology in charge of governmental affairs, we should be afraid. Technology holds so much of our secrets our private emails, our chats, our work documents etc. and google has made a play for all of our information. Google even puts our houses on the internet for anyone to look up and see though google maps. I suppose the big brother commercial featuring Hillary Clinton got it all wrong, it was Big Brother Barack not Sister Clinton.
There is one thing that’s true if the stock market gets wind that google is invading the privacy of regualr citizens and selectively indexing. There stock will not be as valuable.
After reading this link, I’ve discovered why Michelle Obama chose the Gate From Hell Dress:
Gate of Hell Dress
Modifications Matter
Judging by the white dress in the first picture that’s leaving the runway in back of the runway model’s version of the Obama dress Narcisso designs for skin and body accenturer. If you want to wear a Narcisso dress you have to be willing to literally let it all hang out. Unfortunately Michelle Obama though willing to let her husband be a maverick and run for president was not willing to be a Maverick and wear the dress as designed. This unwillingness not only made her a fashion horror but terribly compromised the designer. I think what should be pointed out based on a higher resolution picture (the second picture) is that the dress Michelle Obama is wearing is not the runway models version, she is not wearing the dress as it was intended to be designed. It’s not even a knock off of the dress, it’s a totally different dress.
First of off the dresss to the right is a little black dress with red accents. In my opinion the intent of the designer was to make the dress accentuate the positive charms of the wearer and not be just a cover up. When I actually look at the dress, I’m thinking the designer is thinking about a Latino with silky thick luxurious long black hair with a curvaceous figure. I’m not seeing Vogue I’m seeing playboy. This is a very difficult dress to pull off as is , let alone modified.
First of all the dress has cleavage, the designer of the dress wants to see cleavage, whatever the flaws of the dress too many people will be busy looking down the wearers dress than concerned with the design, especially if it’s wrapped around a playboy Latino’s body.
The designer has gone through pains to minimize the red. The black portions of the bottom of the dress almost meet up with the red and then their are pipings of black that meet a small section of red. Juxtaposed, Michelle Obama has basically a red dress on. The black at the bottom of the dress stops way too early and should almost meet the sash at her waist with a tiny amount of red showing.
At the top the designer has a very minimal amount of red ,with black satin at the cleavage, and red and black fabric like a bra where a woman’s breasts should be. Finally the dress should end with straps. Obama has totally annihilated the cleavage and given the dress a strong helping of red with a tiny amount of black collar. The critics argue that Mrs. Obama has covered up the straps. There is no way this dress has straps. It has a collar.
Finally the bottom of the dress is sheer accenting the theme that the dress is accenting the wearers female attributes rather than being just a dress. In essence legs and cleavage are on display and it’s an invitation, however since Obama was unwilling to go with the spirit of the dress, she’s left with a horrific dress of mostly red and some black.
I am not going to begin to write any commentary today. The only thing I can say is I am truly afraid of Obama. The more I read the more I am disgusted by his stance on abortion. Add to that plans for a secret police made of citizens and it just smacks of Hitler’s Nazi regime.
If my memory serves me correctly Hitler had an almost pathological fascination with Youth, the youth, what the youth would do, he even went from village, province, and various other places organizing the youth. The Obama machine has done the same thing. Hitler also wanted to get rid of the undesirables. Obama has said “why would a woman want to have a down syndrome baby” and advocates getting rid of babies with defects all the way up to nine months. Obama has promised to knock down all laws against abortion as his first executive order. All of the callousness towards little babies, the most innocent of individuals leads me to believe that in Obama’s heart he must have some pretty harsh feeling towards adults he feels are undesirable and might event create some sort of Hitler plan to get rid of adults.
In any event my heart is too heavy to even contemplate what an Obama world looks like right now. I hope the world will be there for us if he turns out to be a Hitler.
I find it almost strange that people are demanding that Obama be a Hitler. Some one in the media, maybe TMZ has coined the term Obama baby which has now been added to the Urban Dictionary. The urban dictionary defines Obama Baby as the following:
“A child conceived after Obama was proclaimed President by way of celebratory sex, or any baby born under Barack Obama’s term(s).”
I suppose that these Obama babies are going to have to meet several characteristics, judging by his crowd 1.”from young mothers” 2. “can not have birth defects” 3. at this point I’m willing to believe that Barack Obama is willing to kill them after they get here. There have been so many pathological actions related to babies this decade, I’m beginning to think that hating babies is endemic to our society. Scott Peterson, and Casey Anthony are the first to come to mind. I think Casey Anthony the mother of Caylee Anthony fits the characteristics of a typical Obama follower, drug addicted, uncaring and pathological. The following video shows that Obama followers were participating in open sex and doing drugs on the ball room floor.
This is a concept advocated by Obama supporter Usher Raymond; Usher Sings Love in the Club a song about having sex with a person you’ve just met in the middle of a club. Usher chose to give his 27 year old body to a forty year old woman, with five chidren married her and had a baby with her. In the mean time he’s advocating through his illicit song love in the club that young women have sex with strangers they’ve just met possibly giving them the HIV virus or having an “Obama Baby” or an “Obama Abortion”. I have full commentary on the song here: Personally I think people who knowingly have sex unprotected and then turn around and have an abortion are criminals. The Baby Killer President has just what they need abortion up to nine months:
Abortion Links
Jill Staneck Discussing Obama’s Opposition to saving Babies Born Alive
Obama advocating Nine Month Abortions
The above videos combined with the reckless behavior of Obama followers is disturbing. Obama followers deliberately engage in behavior that could create a baby and then they go out and get an abortion as birth control.
I have a friend who used to go around quoting Ravi Batra. It was a mantra. Every conversation was injected with his economic theories and beliefs. I was so inundated with talk of Batra. I finally read the book my friend let me borrow. I liked this book because every idea was fresh and it was full of theories I had never been exposed to. Batra talked about economic cycles and the types of groups that would control the cycle. Some economic cycles were controlled by what he termed aquisitors, people from the business cycle, and others were controlled by other types of groups it’s been a long time so I don’t exactly remember all the groups. However there was one theory about a particular group that made me catch my breath in shock and think “say it isn’t so”. This was the theory that when economic cycles are controlled by intellectuals sexism and discrimination rises and the life chances of women are more challenging. I had not given this theory much of a thought until I observed how the Obama campaign and now administration in waiting has treated women. I would use the term short. The Obamites treat women short. They make a crazy comment and then act like its no big deal. However it is.
Obama’s embrace of various characters who have been mean and rude and put women down is actually quite disappointing. For a man who’s awfully committed to abortion rights even saying that if a baby lives during a third term abortion to seek medical care for a child born alive that you can touch, feel, has all of his toes, and fingers, etc. would interfere with a woman’s right to choose. He has shown a lack of indifference for men who say nasty things about women. His associates and his choices indicate that his passion for abortion is not particularly for women but for men who don’t want babies. While I love his family and think they are beautiful, his passionate support of abortions always makes me question how many babies did he abort to get to this family ten, twenty, thirty, one hundred. His passionate support of abortion at any costs casts his beautiful family into the farce category for me. In other words the one area where Obama says he supports women seems to be awfully self serving.
The areas where Obama could have made a significant impact and difference in the lives of women in doing something symbolic and life changing for women such as choosing Hillary Clinton for the VP slot was not done and by not choosing Hillary Clinton he showed a remarkable callousness towards the feelings of women. While some would argue that they had a rather nasty primary fight, if the goal is to be as successful as the Clinton Administration who were rumored to have despised Al Gore but chose him anyway because they thought he would help them win the presidency then Obama is not headed in the direction of compromise for the good of the contry. Even though Obama did win the election the choice for VP of a man who dropped out of the election first show’s a startling unwillingness to do what’s best for the country, but to do what’s best for his ego. In other words the woman Hillary Clinton was the best qualified for the slot but Obama chose Biden who dropped out of the race early for his ego. Not only did he choose Biden a man who stroked his ego for VP. He chose Biden a man who had shown a remarkable animus towards women. [see my blog entry on Biden, I remeber how he treated Anita Hill].
As I read about possible Treasury Secretary candidates, I was a little taken aback to see that Larry Summers was leading the list considering that he said “women were not genetically equipped to excel in Science and Mathematics. I was not particularity surprised that Obama would put this man as a major adviser on his campaign with his views towards women because I had given up on Obama after seeing the Palin wink commercial.
A commercial that I equated to the equivalent of a Willie Horten ad. Willie Horten was a criminal that the republicans used in an election to scare people into voting for George W. Bush in 1988.
Willie Horton Ad
After seeing the Palin ad, a Horten ad with different names and different circumstances. An ad that was directed to a woman with five children and was the leader of a state. I was pretty convinced that Obama and his administration will not be woman friendly so hearing the news that Summer’s a top Obama adviser thought women were not genetically disposed to math and science was not surprising.
As I began to think about Summers I remembered also that he was also that guy who could not get along with the Harvard University Faculty and had to resign as President of Harvard. I felt a strong sense of deja-vu as I read this and thought about one person I read about who kept being shuttled from the presidency of one company to another and being let go with a multi million dollar parachute. This analogy fits Summers. When you hang around with people from a certain group they are going to keep giving you high level positions whether you are emotionally equipped for them or not.
It is ironic that the first “Black” President of the United States is a sexist.
“The fact is that most senior officials have no idea what they are talking about: discussion at high-level meetings is startlingly primitive. . . Furthermore, many powerful people prefer to take advice from those who make them feel comfortable rather than from those who will force them to think hard. That is, those who really manage to influence policy are usually the best courtiers, not the best analysts. I like to think that I am a good analyst, but I am certainly a very bad courtier.” Paul Krugman
When I was a younger woman Paul Krugman predicted how the economic world would look several years later his predictions panned out. If his predictions continue to hold. The United States is going to have a dramatic shift in wealth in the next few years and the world economic players are going to shed nation states for an International playing field. Where is the money going? I keep telling everyone it’s going to Dubai, China, and other places. The “money” “the wealth” is going away in the United States. The world could possibly see alliances based on class and wealth and not nation states.
e=mc2 Nothing is ever created or destroyed.
The big question for this millennium is: where is the wealth? It has to be somewhere. It appears to be gone; but by the law of e=mc2. It has to still be somewhere. While Krugman may not be able to point us to the wealth, his forward thinking and knowledge will navigate us through this transfer of wealth so that Obama’s casual voters will prevail and have a brighter future. This year the world recognized Krugmans brilliance with a Nobel Prize.
I think the word that everyone has been using to describe Barack Obama is smart, we assumed that he would put the best and the brightest in. However so far it’s looking like a Chicago Spoils and a Smooze party. The spoils are thank you for being loyal and the smooze is looking towards the richest instead of the smartest. In the case of the treasury secretary, President Obama I think you should smooze to the smart side and make Krugman the secretary of Treasury if he will take it. Mr. Obama this is no joke. We don’t want to be like Chicago, Illinois and have things stay the same. Personally I think your next challenge is to become a billionaire or close to it, please do not use the American people to do this. You won on a platform of change and we want to see change. I think you began by making a former Clinton staffer your Chief of Staff, while that was great I think you need to recognize that this is 2008 and not 1992 and the playing field has changed partially due to the Clinton’s insight. However what worked then does not work now.
Mr. Obama just like your Fresh and young electorate, we need fresh ideas for 2008, infinity and beyond.
President Obama the beauty of the Clinton Administration was that they literally took the best minds in the United States at the time and gave them key appointments and the economy was able to thrive. The White House is not a Palace and you are not a King. You are a servant of the American people and you ran on that premise. Many times as I watched the election, I often thought that no MCcain is not Bush two you are. If you are truly committed to the “casual voters” that got you elected Paul Krugman will be your Treasury Secretary and you will look at resumes and not social connections. The media is reporting that you have the whole Kennedy family cued up for appointments. This will serve President Obama and not the American people. As the United States faces an uncertain future this citizen is urging the President Obama and the Obama transition team to choose the Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman as the Treasury Secretary.
The following is a link referencing articles written in the last month about Krugman:
Has any one heard of the Elder Scrolls? Well it’s this totally awesome series of games from Bethesda Soft Works. My personal favorite is Morrowind, but Oblivion is the latest elder scrolls game. Due to this fact I could not help but instantly be reminded of the Oblivion Gate when I saw Michelle Obama’s dress. The Oblivion gate is a gate to a hell like other world in the game Oblivion. I tried not to mention the hell dress but Wonkette made the hell dress reference first and I’m just putting my two cents in.
In any event here is Michelle Obama’s Dress:
Gate of Hell Dress
Here is the Video of the Oblivion Gate and the whole other world of Oblivion.
Here is a photo of Oblivion.
Oblivion Gate
In Oblivion they have various Daedra or life forces. One of the forces is the Golden Saint. See Below
golden saint
The Elder Scrolls has often used the names of various famous people to name objects, since Michelle Obama is wearing an oblivion dress maybe they’ll create some sort of Daedra named after her a female daedra dressed in black and blood red.
Halloween was several days ago maybe Mrs. Obama has been so busy she may have accidentally put on her Halloween costume to stand by the side of what will be the first Black President of the United States, maybe they were out of suits and ball gowns that night, hell since they were outside even some slacks and a nice blouse would have been appropriate. Was she out of those too?
As for the dress in the first photo, the models are 20 Michelle Obama is 40+. In January she will officially be in her mid 40’s. As Michelle Obama represents the United States in more conservative parts of the world such as North Korea she may want to start dressing like she’s in her mid 40’s. You’re old enough to run for president baby and your figure knows it. Palin and Condi have much hotter figures but they have never abandoned their conservative looks as they represent the United States. Finally, Michelle Obama may have thought Barack Obama had a good chance of losing so she wore the red blood of the people and the black skin of the people on her back. Yeah I had that shirt too when I was much younger:
Finally we may never see Michelle Obama in a suit again because she may be protesting Western Culture and the White Man or if she’s like me when you buy a suit you have to face the fact of what your actual dress size is. For me I am going to put Beyonces figure with my face on my dream board and use the secret to get my body in shape.
On the positive side Michelle Obama’s hair and makeup looked great and the children looked totally awesome, they had on great little dresses, and if a mother has to choose between herself and her children, surely the children come first and they did. Finally Michelle Obama has to be admired. She worked hard with Barack Obama to win the presidency. I think that that’s so wonderful. Love her or hate her Michelle Obama is a total winner.
All day I’ve been looking at FOX news as opposed to CNN. The most striking thing about FOX news as it relates to the Obama’s is the really great video and pictures they have of Michelle Obama. They have her looking like Jackie Kennedy Onassis. They have great couple shots. I am really very impressed. As a woman I am very conscious of a photographers eye and how a person comes out based on the way a photographer feels about a subject. Fox news really loves Michelle Obama.
As Barack Obama gussies himself up for small town America almost everyday, telling them how he’s the new Messiah to their problems and how much he loves them. He hopes that they will forget that he said the following about small town America to a sophisticated, rich, liberal, well heeled crowd:
“it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations”
As we all know Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama this past Sunday. Having been around conservative blacks and foreign blacks, I wonder what the conversation centered around. As a native African American who’s ancesters actually particpated in the Civil Rights Movement, who has relatives who still live on the 40 acres and a mule land. I would like to know what the butt kissing have my son appointed to head of the FCC under the Clinton Administration West Indian Colin Powell and Kenyan American Barack Obama discussed behind closed doors. Please excuse me for my language but I will take my implied right as an African American to use the following word, but I bet the conversation was about
American Niggers
Colin Powell reveals much about what the converation was about when he says the following,
” Should the mixed-race Obama win on November 4, “all Americans should be proud, not just African-Americans,” he added”
Some people may take this to mean that oh Powell is just talking about Obama’s American white mother and his Ghanian father, but for me this small statement indicates that there was a discussion, or a thought that neither Colin Powell nor Barack Obama are descendants of American slaves who had the worst slave expereince of all slaves in the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. The discussion or thought may have been on Colin Powells Side I’m West Indian and I am nothing like those African Americans, and on Barack Obama’s side I don’t have any of that nigger or slave blood in me whatsoever my father was Kenyan, I’m pure African, there are no ties to those African Americans and I’m going to show them too. We are going to bring about great change in their lazy chicken eating inferier lives. I don’t know what’s wrong with African American blacks. Huh Colin Powell says I’m West Indian and I beat those African Americans to Secretary of State. I just don’t think they have the strength of will or the intelligence to even make it up there first. The conversation ends with all of the various stereotypes of black people they aren’t hard working, they are stupid, etc, etc, etc,
Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama
Let’s see how many black people get nominated for black projects if Obama wins. I predict the most oppressive “regime” ever will be under Barack Hussesin Obama for the powerless, black, Hispanic, Female, and the disenfranchised black and white. We can just begin by the liberal media’s reaction to the RNC purchasing Sarah Palin clothes. We used to be the most powerful country in the world and the leader of democracy which the international community looked at as an example. The Republicans recognized their historical role and made sure their candidate was well dressed in the best clothing the United States had to offer not the mediocre or the worst but the best because the United States is suppossed to be the best no matter what it costs and the liberal media outlet cried out that this was wrong. The practice of making sure a person is in their ceremonial best was frowned upon and scorned by the press, indicating to me any movement towards pulling people really out of their situations will be frowned upon. Sure the poor will get food stamps, but programs aimed at giving the poor an equal shot as a banker, making poor women web designers, or sales professionals will just not be the way the democrats will want to go because they thrive on superiority, their mojo comes from the fact that they are better then this guy and that guy. Obama used to talk about it all the time. Michelle and I he would say are both Ivys, he said, and wouldn’t it be great if everyone could be one. Unfortunately, Michelle needs to go and take some how to pronounce the English language like I’m not from the South Side of Chicago classes. I have known women who were from the Ghettos of the South Side of Chicago who’s parents still live there in tenements and they have learned to lose their south side accent relatively quickly like immediately, if seven years of Ivy league education can’t help one in the couple of the Obama’s lose their accent, maybe the Ivy’s are not cracked up to be what they are supposed to be. I sure know Condi did not attend the Ivys, she did however study under the father of a former Secretary of State Madeline Albright and she makes me proud as an African American.
You know all of the nonsense attacks against Sarah Palin in the last days of the campaign may backfire. I am serving the media notice if you continue to attack Sarah Palin and her family in the last days of the election your darling Obama will lose. I keep changing my mind on who to vote for because of the negative campaigning of the campaigners or their surrogates and the media is the surrogate of Obama.
As for the RNC purchasing Sarah Palin clothing, I say Kudos for the Republicans for recognizing what Palin needed and giving it to her. Too many times money and clothing are barriers to a woman achieving. I think the Republicans more so than the democrats have always showed a willingness to see beyond a lack of and work with it. Case in point Suze Orman, and I ‘m not sure the people she dealt with were Republicans, but she said the following or something to the effect of the following (abridged version); I marched into Merrill Lynch after they had taken my money, and I demanded that they give me a job, the manager at the firm said OK and gave me some money to go and purchase some clothes because he said my clothes were inappropriate. This is the Republican way. They are not going to let a lack of keep a valuable team member from being the best she can be. I say Kudos to the Republican Party.
The second issue is Palin’s family traveling on Alaska. The people of Alaska knew Governer Palin had five children when they elected her. I love seeing her family together. It’s so “American”. I know every time she takes her family with her whenever she represents Alaska as Governor this helps the citizens of Alaska. Finally most of the people reporting this most not realize that Alaska has a lot of money. They treat their citizens very well. I knew someone who came to Nashville to go to college from Alaska. Alaska paid her full tuition, she also had enough money left over to pay for an apartment and still had extra. I think the media needs to leave Alaska alone. They have a good thing going.
Finally I would like to mention that early in the primaries, the Obama’s children were at some sort of coffee shop or coffeehouse in an early state and I saw the camera pan over to one of the Obama’s children and their hair was not combed and sticking straight up in the air. I thought to myself boy if elected is this what we are going to send overseas. This is going to get embarrassing, maybe some campaign money should have been used to comb their children’s hair. I don’t think the world thinks that uncombed hair is self sacrificing, it makes the world wonder if America is too poor to get their leaders children’s hair hair combed. (I only saw this once, and it was flashed on very quickly) The RNC made sure this never happened to them. One could argue that we are dealing with different textures of hair but I had to give Cindy Mccain Kudos when she presented her obviously black daughter with her hair “laid”. Most people do not have the mind to know what to do with a “colored” girls hair but Mrs. McCain knew. She also knew to dress every member of her family well and has maintained very high standards for herself in her appearance. This is one example that every first lady I’ve ever seen has done, is maintain a decent appearance. If Michelle Obama can not do this if her husband is elected; I hope people don’t think that this is how the average black person maintains their appearance. Michelle has been doing better lately but I think my example for how a high powered black woman maintains herself would be Condi Rice. I know Condi has handlers but she looks great all of the time so I’m pretty positive she knows how to use a curling iron, and possibly put in her own perm, with Michelle Obama I’m not so sure. I think she should learn to love wigs.
Hey Sarah since we are talking about who people are hanging with, let’s see who you’re palling around with.
Oh Sarah You’re palling around with adulterers. Everyone knows that prior to marrying Cindy McCain, John Mccain was married to another woman and he cheated on her terribly until finally he cheated on her with an attractive millionaire and decided to marry this one. It is also rumored that John Mccain even after he married Cindy did not change his cheating ways, it is widely rumored that he exchanged political favors for sex with a young blonde woman. I suppose what you don’t know is that it is widely believed that you were “the woman” Mccain chose to be VP because he’s gotten a sexual favor from you or he’s expecting a sexual favor from you. Enquiring minds want to know have you given up the cat yet? In case you were unaware that you were palling around with an adulterer you can read more about it here, here - this one states your base does care about adultery and would be less likely to vote for a candidate who had extramarital affairs- let’s see by your logic Obama knew that Ayres did what he did therefore he is what Ayres is let’s pull this further you know that McCain is an adulterer and therefore Sarah Palin is an adulterer and should not get the support of her base. You can also read more about McCain’s adultery here.
The message is:
Sarah Pallin is Palling Around with Adulterers.
Oh yeah who is is Palin palling around with, Oh she’s palling around with a drug addict. A Drug Addict no less. Cindy Mccain falsified prescriptions for her own charity and instead of handing them out to the charity she kept the drugs in a suitcase and swallowed them down whenever she felt like it. You can read about it here or here.
Ok what do we have here:
Saring Palin is Palling Around with A Drug Addict! A Drug Addict!
I thought Sarah Palin was a Christian in most protestant churches that I’ve been too. Drinking is a sin. Cing McCain is known as the Beer Queen. I wonder how many calamities have been caused by people drinking her beer, wife beatings, people killed in drunk driving accidents you get the point. Needless to say the Republican moral majority don’t care.
Sarah Palin is palling around with the Beer Queen, she’s promoting Sin!
Sarah is palling around with these types of people. Well let me tell you it’s not just a group of people. This is one couple. I wonder what her other friends are like. I don’t want to know.
Lately I’ve begun to wonder if McCain is running against Obama or running for President of the United States. It’s Like Barack Obama can’t utter a word without Mc Cain responding. Even so Mc Cain seems to be running a schizophrenic campaign where on the one hand he says he represents the blue collar workers and on the other hand he say’s he represents people who earn over 250,000 dollars a year. While everyone deserves to be represented, if you are running an honest campaign and want to win. The big question for Mc Cain is why would you alienate the majority of the electorate by saying their tax cuts will be welfare unless you plan on pulling a Bush 2000 trick. Do you think the real Joe the Plumbers are aware that they don’t make 250,000 dollars a year. “That” Joe the Plumber may make 250,000 , but most plumbers don’t. The great big question that just popped into my mind is John Mc Cain actually aware that the majority of people make less than 250,000 dollars a year or is he so insulated in his own world that he thinks the majority of people make a quarter of a million dollars a year or more.
As for calling a middle class tax cut welfare. I’m going to have to take a page out of my mothers book, a rabid fighting hollering Obama supporter and repeat her words.
“Mc Cain and his whole family have always been on welfare, they’ve been on our tax dollars for generations, his father even had servants on our tax dollars.”
” If it wasn’t for his family Mc Cain would have never have been admitted into the Naval Academy.”
“Mc Cain would be nothing without Cindy McCain and her money.”
“She should just run away with Charlie Crisp.”
“McCain came in last in his class at the Naval Academy. He’s the reason all of those men were captured in the first place. he’s so stupid”
The point is while Mc Cain is saying Obama is seeking welfare for the middle class. Those same middle class folks are taking their measure of him. My mother, a retired teacher sure is hollering about him all day and the above is just a brief sampling of what she has to say.
I’ve said often on this blog that I’ve made a decision on whom I want to vote for but the truth is I have not and every time I decide definitely in my mind, a constituency of either presidential candidate makes me question if I actually want to cast a ballot for the candidate of choice at the time.
My quandary, not with McCain but with Palin is, Is she a racist or not. I think at her first campaign stop there was a black man who really wanted to shake her hand and she refused to shake it. Ever since my brief observation I’ve been wondering is she or isn’t she a racist. The behavior of her followers, one who even used a racial slur against a cameraman is deeply troubling. There has been evidence that she’s not a racist, the winner of Miss Alaska a black woman has said that Palin was cool and not a sore loser when she lost to her.
In addition Palin’s husband is partially Eskimo which does not point to a pure racist, However, her base makes me wonder what she is.
You know as far as I am concerned the one thing Sarah Palin appears to be doing well is being a woman. I thought it was awesome when Sarah Plain stepped off the airplane toting her baby after her campaign activities. I thought it was wonderful that she actually went into Wal-Mart. I think it’s wonderful that she actually married someone that she’s attracted too. I think it’s wonderful that she has five kids and still manages to play the game. I really like the image that Sarah Palin portrays. I admit she did have a very rocky start with her first TV interview, but she pulled it together quickly. As for Foreign Policy experience Condeleeza Rice, a woman that I deeply admire has said something to the effect that different skill sets can be used to address Public Policy. The You Tube Video of What Condeleeza Rice thinks of Palin appears below.
In terms of Class and Sex I think Barack Obama does this rather badly. Obama for me reminds me of a friend or a loved one that I argue with constantly and I always forgive because well because I care for them. It’s like you see their faults but you love them anyway. Obama as far as I’m concerned is extremely charismatic and seductive. I think he knows this and takes advantage of it. People have dropped out of the race for lesser things then what Obama has been known to actually do. Plagiarism, Biden dropped out of a Presidential race for it. Racism, I do believe that Obama knew that Reverend Wright was a racist. If he’s that naive he does not need to run for President. Churches have themes. The whole Church is themed around evil whitey. I’m sure of it. They have speakers coming to the church talking about how the white man oppresses black people. They have plays about it. This is the unadulterated truth if anyone wants to or cares to hear it. White men who have been accused of a lot less then this type of racism have dropped out of the race, however it may not even be a race issue but a generational issue, Obama’s generation is Prince and Madonna. They are used to controversy and are not dropping out because of it. Earlier generations may have been embarrassed a little too easily.
The class issue, Obama is an unadulterated elitist, small town people cling to their religion and their guns is a terribly elitist thing to say, unfortunately having roots in a small town I agree with this. Though I often write positively about my parents small town roots, the roots sometimes try to follow you out of the country and wrap their tentacles around you creating a small town atmosphere of innuendo and bad feelings. On my most recent visit a relative told me you don’t know what they say about you you should change your clothes, I replied well I know what they say about you, you’re a rabid gossip. In any event I’m not arguing with Obama’s impression of small town America because I used to be closely associated with one and more and more I’m thinking about getting lost from it.
Finally the sexism issue and Obama weighs heavily on my mind. The way the the democrats and Barack Obama treated Hillary Clinton is just totally unacceptable behavior. They literally took votes from Hillary and gave them to Barack Obama as written about here and here. While some may argue that this was not a chauvinist thing to do it was just winning, asking Hillary Clinton to just swallow the incident and campaign was chauvinist to me and though she has been married to the President of the United States and been first lady proving swallowing disappointment and unfairness is profitable, it’s a wooden nickel and makes me wonder if she’s a happy women. Money and Power don’t mean much without self respect. To emphasize how money does not matter, let me briefly tell a story when I was in San Francisco I saw this homeless couple, the male of the pair picked up his raggedly dressed companion and placed her in the basket with such love and gentleness that I instantly felt a twinge of envy. If you can end life being loved and appreciated then power and money does not matter much. In essence Obama treated Hillary wrong, the fact that he respects his wife and no one else is peculiar to me because respect of your colleagues is supposed to be a given.
Finally after all of this, one may wonder why Obama still ranks as a candidate in my mind. The honest truth is he looks like a nice guy who will do the right thing. I don’t believe that he’s a nice guy. He believes in infanticide. This will probably be the deal breaker for me. I honestly don’t feel that he has a platform that he really cares about; for example when I think of Hillary Clinton I think of Health Care. When I think of Barack Obama, I think he looks like a nice responsible human being. He looks like he will do the right thing and he’s a democrat and maybe just maybe he will care about making things better.
Finally as far as Obama is concerned his base is so disgustingly smug that I really feel no affinity with them, though I do have the most basic of college degrees, I still like talking to Joe the plumber, and Mary the maid, and Sue the hairdresser. As a matter of fact I would love to be their friends so I could get free and reduced services from them in exchange for my services as a Web Architect. The SNL skit of the McCain Palin supporter made me think of myself. I am often wrong, I am often judgmental and may mispronounce a word but I don’t think that I should be made fun of. When I see skits like this I think there will be no consideration of me in an Obama presidency and there probably will not be because after all he refused to shake my hand.
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The question pollsters should be asking is, Have you voted in early voting? If not why? If I knew who I was voting for trust me I would participate in early voting to avoid long lines. I am going to narrow it down before the early voting polls close because I don’t want to wait in long lines.
All over the news there is a discussion of voter fraud and the community group Acorn. I have even heard talk that some of the Acorn Registrars had gone to jail for fraud in the past. When I heard about these accusations I thought as a voter registrar myself that the way they did things you really could not say whether fraud was involved or not. The registrars that I have seen lately have a remarkably different style of registering voters than the group of fine registrars that I worked with and initiated to register voters.
I went to several festivals this summer where registrars were present but my first impression as I looked at them standing on and in corners in jeans and thin t-shirts is that I would be afraid to give them my information. They really did not look like they were too serious about registering people to vote and I’ve never seen them actually registering voters. When I heard that 50% of the ballots turned in were false, my first impression was that the people they registered were afraid to say no and gave them fake addresses. Then I heard that ACORN had registered dead people, and NFL football players. I thought my GOD this is terrible. and they say they wanted to prosecute the registrars or the hourly wage people for dong this. While they could falsely use the name of football players I seriously doubt that ordinary workers being paid minimum wage would register dead people. This is an organizational problem that goes high up. Sure poor people should be and deserve to be represented but not fraudulently. As a voter registrar the biggest problem I noticed while trying to register voters is that former felons thought they could not vote and thought that if they even registered they would go back to jail.
Finally I would like to take the time to pat myself and my team on the back for registering voters. During the course of a weekend Jazz Festival in 2007 my team and I registered 300 voters. We had several requirements, we had an official county registration meaning that we were not registering voters under an organization but agreed to represent the county in registering voters, all of us went through training by the county and became voter registrars, as apart of being a registrar we had to agree to allow the county to perform background checks. We all cleared. This was pretty significant to me because in the age of identity theft, people want to be assured that they are giving their information to people they can trust.
I went to about four trainings because I liked to go through the training with new registrars so we could meet each other and finally at the largest which was about 50 people a mysterious attorney came in and started challenging the right of counties to even train registrars and started talking about court cases giving people the right to just walk on the street and just start registering voters. This was very disturbing to me. While I feel that neighbors should help neighbors register each other or friends or relatives. My personal belief is that if you are in the public registering voters and someone gives you over 25 forms to register voters you should have a background check and a badge. I think that people who grab a stack of registration forms and solicit peoples personal information with out just the most basic nod from a county authority, or at least have one registrar in the vicinity should be jailed. Anyone could get twenty-five ballots from the library and take peoples information. In Georgia the one benefit from being a registrar is that when you register voters, their forms are cleared immediately all ID requirements have been satisfied. This was an additional reason why I thought is was so important to be a registrar, the form stated in 2007 if you are new to registering in Georgia you must mail in proof of ID. I could only imagine a nightmare situation of not being a registrar and having to find a copy machine to run off IDS. As a registrar I could look at people’s IDS for verification and it was over for them and me. Mistakes are made, I had one voter registration form where a woman had forgotten to sign her name, I turned it in unsigned because I will never sign someones signature even if I know that they intended to sign.
Finally I would like to say there is no excuse for voter fraud. I’ve registered voters with large groups of volunteers and we were extremely honest and the thought of fraud never occurred to us because we believed in the system and were trying to make it happen for people who may have forgotten or may not have had the time, or may not have known where to go. Finally I would like to say that we became registrars by meeting through the Obama website and at events and decided to represent our counties rather than Obama. We were all honest. For me the fact that Obama has funneled so much into a fraudulent organization is pretty strange when there are people who actually truthfully need to be registered.
If voter fraud is happening in the United States it will have a huge impact on the winner take all states in which there are 48 of them and two that use proportional representation. AS little as 100,000 fraudulaent votes could turn the whole presidential election. Bush won Florida by I believe 180, 000 votes.
I heard on CNN this evening that the cost of the bailout will be 850 billion dollars. The only thing I have to say is vote them out. According to about.com the Senators in the chart at the bottom of the post are up for reelection this year. Please be proactive and tell your friends in their states not to vote for them and to give money and votes to the opposing campaign I will be donating a small amount to Guy Davis who is running against Saxby Chambliss the senatorial candidate in Georgia, I will follow up my donation with a vote. With diebold voting machines we still are not sure that our votes are being counted but have faith.
When Webb of Virginia was up for reelection I made sure I called my homefolk in Southern Virginia and told them that Webb’s Democratic opponent participated in outsourcing. Prior to this call they were on the other Democratic guy’s team. However after I explained to them that this particular man’s business was outsourcing they changed who they planned to support. Some of them had even volunteered for the campaign but immediately stopped volunteering after they received more information about the other candidate and passed the word. The other candidate won Northern Virginia but lost factory based Southern and Eastern Virginia. I say all of this to say that the Senate can not be so arrogant with our support and ignore the will of the people. You can make a difference. Call your family and friends and tell them to vote against this bill by voting the Senators out who voted for it. There should be no safe seats. What Bush and Paulson did to the markets was terrible, they essentially played the role of a hedge fund operators by saying something about the market and making it true by fearing investors. Personally the way the stock market is doing business by responding to fear is rather strange. It seems pretty clear cut that computer modeling ought to be able to tell you how a company is actually doing. Oh I forgot some companies are cooking the books so that no one really knows whats going on and Paulson plans to bail his friends out who are doing this by giving them money. CALL YOUR FRIENDS AND HOMEFOLK! TELL THEM TO EXPRESS THEIR ANGER WITH A VOTE AGAINST THE SENATORS BELOW!
In any event the list of Senators seeking reelection follows below. I need to verify who voted for the bill and who did not but please, please, please if you know of individuals in the states that these Senators are from please tell them to vote these individuals out of office, even though Biden will probably be Vice President we need him voted out on the ballot. Here is the list according to about.com As for Obama, is anyone really believing that he would not have voted for the war, we are watching what he does and not what he says, furthermore does anyone doubt that he was the one who put in the provision to give ACORN money probably in the Rezco manner of give me some later or give me a high priced gift. I am still trying to support a democrat for the presidency because the Republican tricks as illustrated by the Bushs’ are just totally outrageous, wasn’t the last Bank bailout when Bush Sr was VP or President. They have robbing the American people down to a science, even now I’m pretty doubtful that eight years of a democratic presidency can help us recover from this Republican Administration. Welcome to the Banana Republic of the U.S.
Summary
One-third of the 100 Senate seats are up for election every two years; on 4 November 2008, voters will select 34 Senators (one special election). These senators will serve a six-year term from 3 January 2009 until 2 January 2015.
The following chart reflects the potential that a seat might change parties in this election cycle; it is based on analysis from several election consultants.
Analysis
The November 2006 election gave Democrats a slim majority — 51-49 — because two Independents caucus with Democrats. In the event of a tie, the Vice President, a Republican, casts the deciding vote.
Going into this election, the Democrats are at an advantage because most of the seats (22) are held by Republicans. Thus, they have fewer seats (12) to defend.
Eight of the 33 are first-term Senators; only one of these is a Democrat. One, Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) was re-elected in 2002 after retiring in 2000.
There is one special election, in Wyoming (which will elect two Senators in November).
Five senators have announced retirement. Should Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) not be nominated for President, he will run for re-election. Tim Johnson (D-SD) is still recovering from brain surgery.
Sen. Wayne Allard (R-CO, announced 1/15/2007)
Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID, resignation announced then rescinded)
Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM, announced 10/3/2007)
Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE, announced 9/10/2007)
Sen. John Warner (R-VA, announced 8/31/2007)
The legend for the chart:
Competitive: These races have the potential to become competitive.
Toss-Up: These are uncertain or too close to call.
Senate Seats Up For Election In 2008
State
Incumbent
Outlook
2002
Vote
AL
R
Voted NO!
59%
AK
R
Ted Stevens
(1968 – )
He will be 85 in 2008; under corruption investigation. Considering a challenge: former Lt. Gov. Loren Leman and former state Senate President Mike Miller.
78%
AR
D
Mark Pryor
(2003 – )
Considered safe seat
54%
CO
R
Retiring and Voted No!
51%
DE
D
Joseph Biden
(1973 – )
Considered safe seat; running for Vice President
58%
GA
R
Saxby Chambliss
(2003 – )
Considered safe seat
53%
ID
R
Larry E. Craig
(1991 – 2007)
Resigned. Candidates: former US Rep. and Army Veteran Larry LaRocco (D)
65%
IA
D
Tom Harkin
(1985 – )
Considered safe seat
54%
IL
D
Richard Durbin
(1997 – )
Considered safe seat; senior senator
60%
KS
R
Voted No!
83%
KY
R
Mitch McConnell
(1985 – )
Considered safe seat; senior senator and Senate Minority Leader. Seat targeted by DNC.
65%
LA
D
Voted NO! Removed From List
52%
ME
R
Susan Collins
(1997 – )
State leans Republican. Candidates: Rep. Tom Allen (D-ME-1) voted against Iraq War
58%
MA
D
John Kerry
(1985 – )
Considered safe seat
80%
MI
D
Carl Levin
(1979 – )
Considered safe seat; senior senator
60%
MN
R
Norm Coleman
(2003 – )
State leans Republican. Candidates: author and former radio talk show host Al Franken (D)
50%
MS
R
Thad Cochran
(1979 – )
Considered safe seat
85%
MT
D
Max Baucus
(1978 – )
Considered safe seat
63%
NJ
D
Frank R. Lautenberg
(1982-2001, 2003-)
Considered safe seat; he will be 84 in 2008.
54%
NC
R
Voted No
54%
NE
R
Chuck Hagel
(1997 – )
Considered safe seat – has not declared; senior senator. Candidates: Attorney General Jon Bruning (R)
83%
NH
R
John E. Sununu
(2003 – )
State leans Republican. Candidates: Portsmouth’ Mayor Steve Marchand (D) Katrina Swett running as D
51%
NM
R
Pete Domenici
(1973 – )
Will not run; implicated in US Attorneys firings.
65%
OK
R
Voted No!
57%
OR
R
Gordon H. Smith
(1997 – )
Other Senator a Democrat. Candidates: businessman Ty Pettit (D), Oregon House Speaker Jeff Merkley (D) and attorney Steve Novick (D)
56%
RI
D
Jack Reed
(1997 – )
Considered safe seat; senior senator
78%
SC
R
Lindsey Graham
(2003 – )
Considered safe seat. Candidates: businessman John J. Cina (R)
Every Time I think of how the country was asked to give 700 billion dollars to the Department of the Treasury from a three page letter I am incredulous. As a Political Science Major who’s never worked in the field, with extensive coursework in Public Policy, I know that if I had turned in 3 pages for any Policy Evaluation of an issue or Policy Solution, a three page prescription would have netted me a great big F. I think the minimum for a decent grade not to mention 700 billion dollars was twenty pages. As a former debater and a person with extensive experience with crafting public policy. There is no way possible Paulson could have given any serious thought to why he needed 700 billion dollars with three pages.
As far as debate goes, you can’t even begin to debate adequately with three pages because your competition who has to be familiar with all basic aspects of the issue would tear you apart. For instance if you were debating the overall aspect of the crashing economy. You would have to know what industry’s were or would be affected, what would throw the country over the brink into a depression, what solutions were needed to solve the problem, statistics, justifications etc, all buttressed by noted authorities well respected in their field. Finally after the solutions were proposed there would be talk of cost. The price of entry into debate is being able to SHIT, as one former debater coined it. T – Topicality - Do you have the ability to even firmly grasp the over riding issues and what’s going on, I -Inherencey – What are the inherent barriers keeping the problem from being solved, ex. Why is the U.S. facing a depression or in depression, and what is causing the depression? H -Harm - What will happen if we don’t solve the problem? this is one Secretary Paulson did get, he skipped immediately to pushing our country over the brink. Finally in debate your solution is called S-Solvency which includes a policy prescription and solutions to the problem. You will lose if you say give me 700 billion dollars and that solves the problem. You have to have step by step solutions. I’m sorry to say but a three page letter for 700 billion dollars would get you laughed at.
AS far as formal training in policy drafting and making the same applies. One wonders with such a large staff why Paulson would deliver a three page document in exchange for 700 billion dollars. Don’t the American people pay the salaries of policy wonks at the Department of the Treasury to examine broad issues of the economy, and render proposed policies that will provide the solution. Heck even a computer simulation predicted Hurricane Katrina at least five years prior to it’s happening. I’m sure their is a computer that Paulson could have used to get some statistics for why he needed 700 billion dollars. The problem here is that Paulson did not even try to make his robbing of the citizens look good. Furthermore, I am even wondering if this is his jurisdiction, yes he’s supposed to keep the economy going, but the Department of Commerce is supposed to be the governmental liaison between Wall Street and Main Street. You know I have only one thing to say, when I graduated from college I sent out hundred and hundreds of applications to government looking for a position as a policy analyst, no one hired me. It is a little disappointing to see a three page policy proposal for 700 billion dollars. I can’t even get a micro loan of $1000.00 without a business plan.
Then again just like the Iraq War., this situation is just friends helping friends and I believe what the callers of C-Span believe that once the deal is done the money is going to the Caymans and to Dubai. This is essentially a buyout of Wall Street and they don’t have to put it back into the U.S. economy. I have to admit that if someone bought my business for 700 billion dollars and I had a nightmare experience of employees faking documents, clients lying about their worth etc. There is no “way” I would try to come back and do business with the same types of people again. I would take my loan money to China, and to places where I know the people would pay me back and the people processing the loans were honest. After getting my share of the 700 billion dollars I would leave the country. The crisis that we are in is because we hire people who ask for 700 billion dollars because of three pages of documentation and “get it” because they threaten us or because we like them. This is not just a depression this is a disaster with a massively undereducated population that are not assets to the U.S. anymore. The one thing that Bush did get sort of right was a focus on education, however the high drop out rate is not good for the economy so he sort of got it wrong too. I heard a speech that Mc Cain gave in 2005 where he had already figured out that we had a crisis in the United States as indicated by his words, he said something like the following I went and talked to the President of Ireland and I asked him how he had turned his country around from being a place that people were fleeing from to a place where people were flocking to, McCain went on to say that the president of Ireland said that he committed himself to the education of the populace. I understand that with our Mobile society it is impossible for us to control how long and how children are educated but we must, the health of our country is at stake.
Finally, I suppose since the Secretary of the Treasury can ask for 700 billion dollars with three pages, I have a right to offer my own suggestions in a couple of paragraphs. First of all I think something like the WPA should be established to give people jobs in this crisis, second of all I believe that Loans and maybe buyouts should be given to Wall Street to firms that go through an application process with heavy documentation “required”, since Paulson has demonstrated that he could not be objective with his non bailout of Lehman Brothers and possibly Merrill Lynch (Does anyone want to do business with Lynch after being bought by the thieving bank Bank of America, I had three bank accounts prior to Bank of America with Bank Cards only, I never had an overdraft, I had a bank card with Bank of America also and in the first month of use they had managed to charge me over $150 in overdraft fees for an amount less than $25. and no I did not balance my accounts but I did what I did with every other account i called for the balance and evidently the balance was wrong because Bank of America fleeced me with overdraft fees just from a bank card, so as far as that buy out goes, ordinary individuals need to stay as far away from the New Merrill Lynch as possible, banks 1000 times smaller than Bank of America could manage to accurately reflect my account balance but BofA could not) In any event Paulson has demonstrated in his refusal to give equal treatment to Lehman brothers and Merrill Lynch while in a credit crisis, that he does not have the fairness and judgment to administer 700 billion dollars. If I were congress I would ask Banks and Investment institutions to create proposals with justifications and needs asking for the money and expedite the loan or purchase of securities to a day if necessary. I will repeat this one more time, I would in no way or no how give a man who asked for 700 billion dollars on three pages any money “never”.
Finally I mentioned McCain, I have to mention Obama too, Obama has showed great judgment in saying no, they can wait a little while longer, he also showed great judgment in actually consulting experts as in plural on the subject. I think our failure in leadership has come about because our leaders believe that they ought to know everything and do not consult or respect the knowledge of others. As for Mc Cain he showed great judgment in suspending his campaign to work on this issue. Evidently, he clued Obama in to the fact that he had to stay too, because CNN and Fox are reporting that Obama has not left Capital Hill. I think even the suggestion that Mc Cain is trying to grandstand politically is ludicrous. He has been a Senator for a very long time and several laws have his name on them. He wants to be involved and objective politicians on both sides wanted him to be Involved. Kudos to both men!
Every time I hear Mc Cain speak for any length, I hear words coming out of his mouth that I know are quite wrong. Mc Cains constant talk of war mongering and expanding the Armed Services when hardly anyone is volunteering now gives me pause. How are you going to expand the armed forces when no one is volunteering, oh I know implement a draft. I have a son who is twelve I do not want him drafted into the military. If he chooses to join fine!
For the first six months of Barack Obama’s campaign his message was simply, I will bring the troops back home and I did not vote for the war. With this message he became the front runner in the Democratic primary and eventually recieved the nomination to be the democratic nominee for president. Is Mc Cain aware of any of this? Is Mc Cain aware that a record number of people voted in the democratic primary and will vote in the general election not for him. Mc Cains platform or lack of one is leading me to believe that the Republicans don’t believe tricks are for kids and have some voting tricks planned.
At this point I can’t even see the most ardent racist voting for more of the same of what we just had. I don’t think that most people have failed to realize that all of the wars and the trouble that America has been sticking it’s nose in lately has been in oil, drug, or both producing regions. Georgia is an oil producing region and at the time of the conflict Americans were drilling for oil there. Personally I prescribe to the precept that natural resources ought to belong to the region first and everyone else second. The United States is most likely involved in the Georgian conflict because they want their natural resources. Again all of these little wars that have been started since the Bush presidency have been essentially because of oil. I am extremely disappointed that though Mc Cain is not from Texas he is turning out to be an oil man. Furthermore his choice of an oil woman as a VP candidate solidifies this view.
I saw a really nice interview done with McCain in 2005. He seemed like a really nice man with great ideas for education and the enviornment. Unfortunately these great ideas are sorely missing from his platform. I am honestly wondering if he’s senile or what.
As for Sarah Palin, I tuned into the Charles Gibson interview and honestly felt that Charles Gibsons questions were a little harsh and unfair. I have never heard of a Bush model of Foreign Policy being spoken of before, I have heard the words “the Bush policy of preemptive strikes”. For Sarah Palin’s part she did ask for clarification and Charles Gibson did not give it. This was a high tech lynching of Sarah Palin and I can guarantee this if the media continues to go after Palin like this. Mc Cain will win. Did I tell you how I ended up voting for Bush the last time I believe, I walked in undecided, definitely not intending to vote for Nader, but all the same I wanted to see his name. I had heard that the dems had went on a campaign to get his name off of the ballot because they felt he took votes away from them. When I looked at my ballot they had successfully taken him off of my ballot, I therefore initiated my protest vote by voting for Bush. If things continue they way they are with Sarah Palin, I might have to vote for Sarah Palin to show my disgust with the way she’s being treated.
As has been written about before on this blog, the one thing that blacks of the diaspora meaning for the most part descendants of West African blacks transplanted by the Trans Atlantic African Slave trade in the 17th and 18th century need to realize is that Barack Obama does not share that Ancestral Legacy with Blacks of the Americas. Barack Obama is not the descendant of a slave and does not share this heritage and to put it bluntly does not have the right to claim a legacy that is not his. Barack Obama is African and not African America. Barack is East African and not West African. Barack Obama is about as related to the descendants of West African slaves as are people in China that have black skin, India who have black skin, the Middle East who have black skin, etc. “Attention” people just because you have black skin and are from Africa this does not mean that you automatically inherit the legacy of African American blood sweat and tears. This does not mean that your ancestors fought in all of the United States wars, this does not give you the right to claim Crispus Attucks, the black guy who ran through the streets hollering the British are coming the British are coming. In actuality, the truth regarding Africans currently in Africa is that their Ancestors actively participated in the Transatlantic slave trade, many of them went deep into the interior of Africa and all along coastal Africa capturing other Africans to sell them to slave traders. This is a fact that most native Africans admit to. The only people who seem not to know this are African Americans which sometimes makes me wonder how long will their stupidity last, their ancestors were dumb enough “including mine” to be captured and placed into slavery and now the madness continues with their pushing to elect a “slave capturing” African as their first African American president. Oh the Irony…………, Isn’t it Ironic! If anyone doubts my words about the role of Africans in the Transatlantic slave trade, they may want to view the following movie or read the movie synopsis,
The above reminder was prompted by ads that are being run by the Obama campaign and the DNC which I heard yesterday on the Micheal Baisdan show that appeal to black peoples sense of heritage, that say that “our ancestors fought for this”, elect Barack Obama. Honestly the person who wrote these ads should review the transatlantic slave trade, should view a movie and relive my ancestors being chased by Obama’s African ancestors to put my ancestors on a brutal slave ship that resulted in my ancestors having to be freed by the Republican Abraham Lincoln, that caused my ancestors to have to fight in the civil rights movement for equal education, equal employment etc. and the right to vote. While I am not against Obama, these commercials are only pimping black people and playing upon ancestral connections that are not there. As for Micheal Baisdon, I am not surprised that these ads are being run on his show, this is the same man who regularly has strippers and pole dancers on his BET television show and discusses topics such as women should get surgery to tighten up their vaginae. This is why Baisdon is comfortable running these ads because essentially “literally” he is a pimp himself and has no problems pimping descendants of African Americans. STOP THE IRONY!!!!! STOP THE LIES!
I think one thing most people can agree on is that democrats try to claim the lead on being concerned about people in general. They have made this their niche. The world barely knows that Cheney rose from steel worker and union man to Vice President of the United States. Meanwhile in the democratic party, unless you are black these Horatio individuals barely arise. The same thing applies to helping people. As Obama expounds on the poor and the downtrodden, his brother sits behind shanty curtains looking as if he and his child barely get enough to eat. There is a saying Charity begins at home. As the democrats speak about how low the Republicans are and how awful they are to individuals. The current sitting president has initiated record setting initiatives to help the world in their various issues as it relates to women, children, and AIDS.
The VP nominee for the Republican party Sarah Palan is a member of an organization Feminists for Life that embodies their concern for women of all social stratas. While they do not subscribe to the Feminist issue of abortion, they do subscribe to women friendly issues such as equal pay for equal work, are against violence towards women, and many other issues that draw a common thread between women.
Palin may be a formidable foe for OBama in it that she is an actor and and initiator not just a bag of wind. I have not failed to notice that every promise that Obama has made he has gone back on. Obama promised to allow a roll call vote for Hillary Clinton by state. This never materialized, instead there was a back alley deal where Hillary Clinton gave all of her delegates to Obama. I know that this could not have been Hillary Clinton’s idea. All of the promises that have been made by Obama I am sure that they are “Just Words” and will not be kept. Trust me Obama is for sell.
In a move that shows John Mc Cain’s respect for his wife, daughter and his mother. NOT “Just Words” Mc Cain chooses Sarah Palin as his VP nominee.
To quote Cyndi Lauper in “Girls Just Want to have Fun”,
Somebody takes a beautiful girl and hides her away from the rest of the world, (The dems took Hillary and are hiding her away from the rest of the world)
I want to be the one to walk in the Sun, (Hillary wanted to walk in the Sun, (her beautiful Orange suit showed this”)
Palin will walk in the Sun for the Good Ol Party! This election year will break barriers!
” It’s not all bad, Biden was also responsible for VAWA, the Violence Against Women Act and has a good record on foreign policy, an area in which Obama is perceived as untested. Still, it’s a far cry from a Hillary vice presidency”
After doing a very brief self education on Joe Biden as a Right to to Life advocate I find Obama’s decision to choose Biden who has always voted against partial birth abortion an apology to those people who are leery of voting for him because of his stance on abortion. In addition, while Biden let Thomas through he has done a pretty decent job vetting potential candidates for those people with pretty progressive values. I honestly had hoped it would be Hillary Clinton, despite a blog entry to the contrary. However the haze has worn off and after being bombarded to 15 minutes of Republican hate on Fox towards the little guy and those people who would support them. I am convinced that the Republican party is absolutely wacko and have no intention of making a change for the better for the common man.
I am swallowing my words. I will vote for Barack Obama, and I will work as hard as I can to get him elected. I don’t think that I am going to flip flop again. As for some of the issues I wrote about earlier, I am laying them at the door step of Michelle Obama. I think women are supposed to be the compassionate sex, and make a move to do things to help relatives in need. Obama however does have spiritual surrogate wives in the role of Oprah Winfrey and Suzanne Malvauex who I think have and will fill in the gap.
If anyone wants to know what the standard is for an African American first lady, the standard is Coretta Scott King. I have heard the founder of the National Organization of Negro Women speak extensively about Coretta Scott’s work in the Civil Rights movement and how Coretta planned every meticulous detail as it related to Martin’s Public speeches and activities. Michelle did pay off the tickets I give her credit for that but but she’s not a Hillary, a Laura, a Jackie, or a Coretta, maybe just maybe she fits the bill for a self absorbed but loving Nancy.
The VP pick for Barack Obama will be Joe Biden. I think what stands out most for me about Joe Biden is his abominable treatment of Anita Hill during the confirmation of Clarence Thomas. I do not remember the words but the whole election cycle I was relieved that he was not making any inroads because all I could remember is the extrememly disrespectful tone and negativity he displayed towards her in tone . As the mother of a young black girl, I will not be voting for OBAMA this election cycle. I have not seen anything in his or his wifes character that allows me to. Last night I saw a segment on CNN where he had a brother living in a shanty town in Kenya, no doors for entry only sheets, the brother spoke perfect English so I know that he could have brought him to America and arranged for him to have an education. The brother also looked like a famine victim or AIDS sufferer. The picture of the close relative of the nominee of a major party of the United States living in a Shanty not even shack was highly disturbing and as an American disturbing, Maybe John and Cindy McCain can arrange for Barack Obama’s brother to come to the United States give him a job, and let him live in one of their seven houses. They have proven themselves up for the task by adopting an Asian Orphan and raising her to adulthood, meanwhile Barack Obama has a brother and at least a niece who look like extreme sufferers of malnutrition.
This is a big slap in the face to the WOMEN of America. It falls in line with Obama’s record on abortion. This is a blatant disregard for women and children to choose Joe Biden.
Everyday I grapple with who to vote for in the upcoming Presidential election. As an African American far gone are the concerns that I am voting for someone because they are solely African American. I know if I vote for someone, its because I think that they can best represent my interests and those of the country. Personally I seek a reduction in mindless, ill conceived police and authoritarian harassment that I experience in my own community. As noted in this blog I was falsely accused of taking a pair of glasses I purchased from Vision Works and took into the store to get fixed. As I sit here now the receipt for these items sit beside me now. In my heart I honestly believe that I was falsely accused not because the store worker believed that I had taken the glasses but because she felt she had the power to intimidateme by having the store security block my car in and keep me from leaving the mall.
I say this to say that when I think of voting for a Republican their cries of law and order reek of a totalitarian regime where individuals can at will be stopped at the whim of anyone. In addition the vast erosion of rights that have occurred under the current Republican Baby Bush are appalling and have all but nullified the constitution. It would seem pretty clear that Barack Obama would be the smart choice.
However, there are issues that I have with Obama. It is being revealed that Obama is turning out to be an almost pathological liar, egomaniac, and backstabber. Seeing the way the presidential election is playing out is like watching a beautiful woman (eva braun in the movie caligari) seduce a group of men with her flattering words when what really lies inside is an evil heart. We are used to politicians lying but Obama has taken it to a new level.
As I watched the past presidential candidate conversation, I was especially struck by one lie. The lie was that Obama did not support partial birth abortion. I knew that this was a blatant lie as I heard him utter the words. I had read a letter by Michelle Obama calling partial birth abortion a simple medical procedure between a woman and her doctor. The letter is here. When I spoke with a friend who is an Obama supporter about this letter. Their response was that Michelle wrote the letter Barack did not. “Whatever”
In any event the portion of the presidential conversation that totally shocked me was when Barack Obama was asked to say something truthful that he wanted voters to know and he said essentially that there would be no reduction in energy costs and Americans were going to have to learn to conserve energy and basically swallow it. This struck a sharp discord in my head because the main reason I am voting for anyone is to get some energy relief which John Mccain said that he would provide in some form or fashion and Obama may intend to provide it but still expects us to pay high prices which I am sure the American people do not want to do. After hearing this statement, I put Obama in the rich and climbing category and became convinced that the oil industry is going to arrange to get to him a mysterious cash donation. However still I was not totally for Mccain, what kept me tuned in was the absolutely awesome clothes his wife wore , a shallow reason but it’s the truth. What repelled me were the republican surrogates and thei9r extreme views. I don’t care who marries who. I do believe if anyone has sexual relationships with someone for years and lives in the same house and attends social events with this person they are entitled to legal rights like a spouse. In the case of the dissolution of a relationship assets should be equally divided and support should be paid if one person supported the couple. There were some other issues that disturbed me about Republicans but they are too numerous to name. Finally since I am prolife the deal breaker with me for John McCain came when I heard he was choosing a pro-abortion running mate. I thought I may as well choose Obama.
However Obama is rapidly fading as an option as it is being hammered into me what he did as it related towards babies. A series of videos and articles that I’ve read have convinced me that I want no part of Obama and while watching the video below, it almost looked like the people who were supporters were evil demons from hell and after viewing the video my first thought was I would be embarassed to see my face or my hand holding an Obama sign. The video follows:
I was not aware that we had a monarchy in this country. I thought we voted for one president and he had a wife but she was not a co president or coruler. Obviously things have changed. The Jackie Kennedy analogy just ran out Jackie was willing to play in the background, she redecorated the white house. I suppose Michelle will be the one answering the red phone now.
As for Michelle being a Hillary, Hillary ran for an office , Senator and won. What a pity all of the talented women who actually hold an office in the democratic party have been knocked out so King Kuba can make his wife a keynote speaker, obviously the same opportunities extended to Barack Obama when they chose a junior senator or was he a state representative at the time to speak at the convention will not be extended to others.
Oh I suppose it’s not a real monarchy, if they win they will have to leave in four or eight years, maybe a modified monarchy.
The Obama campaign is responding to rumours of a Michelle Obama whitey tape with the response that no tape of this nature exists. They have put up a website entitled http://fightthesmears.com . They are discounting the whole issue as a Republican smear tactic.
“Wow, way to take words out of context and twist them to say what ever you want. Look I can do it too! “…I am quite surprised that the media has not mentioned the ‘low class comment’ but this shows their deep seated bias against honest and fair journalism.” As we all of course know, “fair” is another word for white, as in the “fairer race” or fair-skinned. It is clear that this blogger fears that there is a conspiracy to silence all honest white journalists. Who is this person? Twisting people’s words and then calling it fair and honest does not make it fair and honest. Take some serious time and work on your logic”
In response I wrote the following:
Pas, independent organizations have evaluated media coverage of Barack Obama and have determined that the media has given preferential treatment to Barack Obama. Even now the Tony Rezko issue and his associations with Barack OBama have not been fully explored, even now the connections with Weather Underground have not been fully explored. Trust me I would love to see a black president and Barack Obama is very likely to win. However due to Barack Obama’s past and affiliations a terrible message is being sent to our youth that to make it you have to be dirty; IE. a former drug user, former gang member, abusive towards other races, and have a love for people who hate. I have worked with people who loved Obama who were white and they still love him. However they were surprised with the way they were alienated by the other black people who were working to get Obama elected who were quite cold. This is a world that I want no part of. Contrary to what some people would have you believe the radical race problems were initiated by Obama’s associations with Reverend Wright not by people blogging about it. Obama is the racist not I. You know Hitler espoused a public disdain for Jews when he ran for election in Germany, Obama’s associates are espousing a public disdain for whites. Personally I think every white person ought to sit down and think about what electing someone who secretly hates white people means or every person needs to ask themselves what supporting someone who’s willing to hate anyone in that manner means to the United States. Furthermore people like Reverend Wright don’t just hate whites, they hate women, gays, Jews, and a variety of other people also. You may think that Barack Obama just want’s the Presidency but if he gets it something more megalomaniac might hit his mind other than running for President after he has been in the United Senate for three years, who knows his mind might initiate a mass extermination policy against groups and races he does not like. All that I’ve said is worth thinking about.
As Barack Obama declares that he has locked up the democratic nomination tonight. This should be a proud moment for me as an African American. However it is not. I suppose I could say it’s not, because I volunteered for him stood and helped navigate rally attendees for hours, checked on the sick and lame, and organized voter registration drives and when I was in his face he could not shake my hand. I guess I could say that this is the reason I don’t support him and for that reason I believe that it would be justified. However I am supposed to be as I keep reminding the readers of this blog so objective that my career aptitude test long ago pointed me to judge.
I have to honestly so that I feel that Barack Obama is staking out illegitimate territory when he asserts that he’s the democratic nominee. I could have applauded his nomination had it not been for Michigan, and after seeing the sorry affair of Michigan and how delegates were given out, I had to rethink the whole situation. As far as Michigan goes, unlike the Clinton campaign I was prepared for Barack Obama to get undecided, but when the Michigan Democratic party came up with a solution to give Barack Obama the uncounted write in vote based on an exit poll. I was floored, clearly this was dirty dealing. If they could do this they could have seated all of the Florida delegates if they so chose. What the 18 folks who voted for this deal at the table failed to realize is that this is a real election not as Former President Clinton said months back a “Fairy Tale”. Once the election goes into swing with John McCain. There will be no party of 30 that you can beg, complain to, pay off, or appeal to becuase they may be black, and guilt into turning black and white into grey. If I were any party’s nominee I would lilke to think that I was entering the race based on fairness and that I had played the game to win honestly and not gone to the party of 30 to have the nomination handed to me because of various reasons.
It appeares that every honest move that Senator Clinton decided or wanted to make has been shot down in some smoke filled back toom. Senator Clinton agreed to a revote for Michigan and Florida. Obama did not because he did not want it. He refused to agree becuase he thought he would lose.
The party of 30 attempting to control the fate of 303,824,646 thousand people is absolutely ridiculous. The shocking part is the dirty Michigan proposal was done on National TV. I can’t imagine what awful things have been done behind closed doors to get people elected. The sanctimonous democrats are always attacking Republicans and the tactics they use to win, they need to do a self examination becasue they are not stabbing a republican in the back but a fellow democrat.
Asfor Hillary Clinton, what decision will she make? What will she do? Could she run as an independant without the so called black vote and win? Lets look at the statistics according to the CIA FactBook 81.7% of United States Citizen are white; 12.9% are black; and 4,2% are Asian. Hispanics who fall into the above ethnic groups are tallyed based on their etnicity or their color. It’s pretty obvious that Hillary Clinton could make a run for independant and run, and judging by her supprters reaction when she refused to concede tonight; like Lieberaman she would probably win. Maybe Hillary did not give up on Bill because she’s the loyal woman that she is and Bill did take her to the top as First lady, and Bill does look out fo rher best interests ultimately. However Hillary Clinton may have to give the democratic party the boot and strike out on her own. Honeslty it won’t be that hard to find at least 18 people smarter than than the 18 of 30 that made the Michigan decision. However, if Hillary is going to make or even consider an independant run she has to make the decision quickly people are getting really weary.
As for who I will vote for I don’t know I would like to vote for Hillary Clinton. I know I will not vote for a ticket with Romney. However as for the economy I comfort myself that I could vote for a Republican by thinking what a mess the economy was unuder Carter and how Reagan swooped in and turned it around ‘VOODOO” I know but the price of gas stabalized and we no longer had to put quarters in the tank when we had to use it. I was very very young then but I remember it. So McCain could be a possibility. As for Obama judging by the way he’s won the nomination by slighting two states I doubt very serioosuly that he’s concerned about lowering gas prices and stabilizing the economy, he’s inner not outer. He just wants to be president.
Booman on Daily Kos is confirming that there is a Michelle Obama “whitey” tape. He seems to think the Michelle Whitey tape has been doctored or taken out of context. He is providing text quotes as to the content of the video. You can link to his blog here.
This blog reported yesterday about the extremely strange way Michigan Delegate votes were allocated to Barack Obama yesterday. The published post discussed how Obama would get the results of two places on the ballot uncommitted and the write in vote. Obama asked the voters of Michigan and even passed out handouts suggesting to people who wanted to vote for him to vote uncommitted. We all assumed he would get uncommitted for Michigan. We did not assume he would get the write in vote also which according to Michigan is uncounted if a candidate has not formally declared that he would run for office in Michigan write in for the candidate can not be tallied or recorded the machine ignores them and no one knows who the write ins were for. Since it is illegal to look at ballots, Michigan says they relied on exit polls in determining the votes Obama should have for write in. In other words Michigan gave Obama votes without votes.
In any event I thought I was crazy and must have imagined the above because out of over 50 articles I’ve read about the “big” compromise, no one has written about it. It’s like Michigan did not do a dirty deal to give Obama votes. However one truth seeking newspaper is reporting how the Michigan Obama delegates were allotted also. Joseph Williams and Bryan Bender of the Boston Globe are reporting :
“Mark Brewer, chairman of Michigan’s Democratic Party, told the panel the best solution was a compromise, based on an assessment of exit polling and other data. Brewer said Obama was entitled to 59 pledged delegates to Clinton’s 69, “a far fairer reflection of the Democratic preferences in Michigan.”
Exit polls are not the same things as votes. Michigan did not hold an exit poll caucus. Honestly Obama should not have been given the write in vote, and technically he should have been made to associate the uncommitted with his campaign by asking uncommitted to come forward.
The democrats are going on the assumption that the American people are stuck on stupid. Everyone has been aware that Obama campaigned on the uncommitted vote in Michigan. However today the credentials committee voted to give him the uncommitted votes and all of the write in votes. If someone wrote in Mickey Mouse it went to Obama. If someone wrote in Donald Duck it went to Obama. MIchigan does not count the write in votes of undeclared candidates, therefore they have no idea who write in voters voted for, therefore they are using exit polls to allot Senator Obama his delegates. This seems to be highly illegal and strange to give someone delegates based on no votes but an exit poll. If this is how Democrats plan on running the White House. Count me OUT. Be warned dear people the news will only give you the result and tell you Michigan will get a half vote for each delegate, but some of Obama’s delegates were not even votes. They were given to him based on exit polls. This has to fall into the category of ultimate affirmative action. I predict a white backlash because of this that will result in a stunning loss by the democratic party unless Hillary Clinton runs as an independent which she very well should after the madness that I’ve just witnessed by the democratic credentials committee. THIS ELECTION IS LOOKING VERY STRANGE AND IF INDIVIDUALS CAN OPENLY BE UNFAIR< IT”S MAKING ME WONDER IF THE VOTES THAT HAVE REALLY BEEN GOING TO OBAMA ARE TRULY HIS BECAUSE I KNOW EVERY BLACK WOMAN I SPOKE TO EXCEPT OBAMA SUPPORTERS SAID THEY WERE HILLARY CLINTON SUPPORTERS.
If Representative Robert Wexlar is an example of the type of people who would be helping to run the country during an Obama presidency. We are in for Bush two. Wexler could not tell the truth, could not answer questions asked because he was so determined to hide his real motives of trying to preserve Obama’s delegate lead and pretend that he was concerned with the people of Florida. He was not concerned with Florida but with Obama. He literally thought the people interested in the issues had their eyes closed and were stupid. He argued that Clinton should be happy with the 19 out of 40 delegates that Obama was willing to concede. He further said that 19 delegates was what she received from two states combined so Florida and Clinton should be happy with this. When asked about fair reflection ”proportional representation” he looked like and acted like he did not know what this meant.
Honestly, an Obama election is looking like a Bush 2, Mccain may be Bush 2. What are we going to do? Prepare for Katrina 2 and pay ten dollars at the pump because the people selected are wide eyed and unaware of how to run this country. I am so afraid at this point. Clinton really should consider and Independant run. The time is now.
On the flip side Clinton supporters were very articulate, clear, and aware, and did not lie!
It was the assumption of most people following the Democratic Florida Michigan election controversy that the credentials committee of the Democratic Party would decide whether to accept Florida’s and Michigan’s delegates on the 31st of May. However according to Yahoo and The Houston Chronicle Attorneys representing the Democratic Party have sent memos to the credentials committee members on the 31st telling them what they should do. Personally if I were Hillary Clinton I would still opt to put myself on the general Election Ballot and run as an independent. It appears that Dean is on some sort of power play or kick. He’s determined to rule something, and not represent the people who vote in the democratic primary. Furthermore, I just have this feeling that the Obama campaign has interfered in this decision and it’s making me feel extremely uncomfortable. Obama supporters prevented a revote and now from my feelings they are seeking to control the credentials committee.
Clinton lost me after the RFK comment. While there are several reasons that she could have made the remarks, one being it had such a profound effect on her when she was twenty years old it’s constnatly in the back of her mind, and it is a unique case on terms of what to do. I still believe the comment was a wishful thinking gaffe. Obviously the Clinton Donors must be engaging in wishful thinking according to the San Francisco Chronicle, donors are still raising money for Hillary Clinton. They hope that the rules will be broken.
You know I have had sympathy for Hillary Clinton’s cause and do believe that the voters of Michigan and Florida should have been heard. However, if voters are not allowed to vote in either state I beleive it should remain status quo. The bottom line is if the voters really wanted a revote they would have demanded one and the excuse that Barack Obama and his suopporters were not open to a revote should not have detered anyone. This would have been the fair thing to do and maybe it can be done but the voters should be heard in the right manner. However barring a revote the rules shoulstand as is. I weebled and wobbled on this issue however I remebered a tic tac toe game that I played with my daughter when whe was in first grade. I made the mistake of showing her how to win first and then olaying tic tac toe with her. When two people know how to play this game usually noone wins. However my daughter came up with a new rule so she could be the winner she took her pencil and drew a C with three of her X moves and said I won. I made a C. For several weeks we would play and she would continue to make a C and I would tell her that she had not won but she refused to hear me. Finally, I redused to play with her because of this she did not care she preceeded to play with herself after that. As for me when it first happened I thought “wow” if I would have known that another way of winning was to make a c between the boxes I may have considered playing that way then again I may not have played at all.
Lately, I’ve been thinking about this tic tac toe game and I know realize that though the rules made by Dean are stupid. Each candidate agreed to the rules and prepared their campaign by the rules and to change them would be cheating.
and one big reason Clinton should not be VP to Barack Obama. In justifying why she should stay in the race until June. Clinton did a recitation of candidates that stayed in late and won and then she said something to the effect “Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June” she, says she meant no harm, and it was not directed towards Obama, but let me tell everyone this, I heard Obama’s name and it was not even mentioned. Hillary you are married to the former president of the United States and I’m sure he still has assassination contacts who are from your perspective trying to get the job done. In addition Huckabee’s public plea for someone to kill Obama by jumping on the ground like he was trying to dodge a bullet is proving that maybe Michelle Obama might have to reserve her pride in this country for the day her husband leaves the office of the president alive and well. From an International perspective this is so embarassing, I was seriously doubting whether the UN needed to go forth with their plan to do a study of racism in the United States but now I am assured they must. Finally, Hillary you have been jumping on so many peoples bandwagons, the white supremacists argument, the feminist argument I am seriously beginning to think that you have totally lost it. It is my full belief that any human who runs for president is a crazy egomaniac but the past field of presidential candidates are getting their egos bruised because they have lost, are losing or will lose to a man that is the color brown. The Clinton and Huckabee attitudes prove that there is no blood argument for who should be first in the white house a person of slave descent or a person of native Kenyan descent with a white American mother. The threshold for the rich white people who want to have power and keep power is that they just don’t want a man who is the color brown or black to be in the White House. I was born after the sixties and have gone through many election cycles and I have never heard a political candidate threatened as much as Obama, I have never even heard of any one even implying that a political candidate could be assassinated. I don’t think I ‘m going to change my mind again this time, I don’t think there is anything Hillary Clinton can do to make me want to support her anymore.
This is the one thing I do know Obama will not be assassinatedeven though there seems to be this massive racists call for someone to do something about it. I have realized that Obama’s is winning because he’s an Eagle he flies higher. The thing he, his family and his supporters need to do is not give off the energy that something could happen to him, know that he will live that nothing will happen and believe it. The media has to stop reporting this stuff because they are stirring up some primal call that is not going to happen. Hillary I think you may seriously need to retire to your rocker because it’s looking like you will do anything to be president and that’s not good. I think at this point I’m going to have to let you go, and wear my Obama T-Shirt tomorrowt to indicate my solidarity with a movement that insists upon change. At this juncture I have no choice but to be an Obama supporter. There is no where else to go.
The Question: I thought Hillary Clinton was in Debt How can she have 30 million dollars for the election?
The Answer: At the beginning of the election Clinton donors gave the maximum they could give and half went to the primary and the other half was put in reserve for the General election if she won. If she runs as an independant the war chest for the general election is her’s. If she goes as Obama’s VP. the money is theirs, if Obama retires her campaign debt he will get it back with interest.
With That Said!
It is pretty obvious that despite the fact that Hillary Clinton is smart, intelligent, and thoughtful and really concerned about the American People in terms of Healthcare and lowering gas prices that the democrats are looking for something a little or a lot different. They are looking for a man who calls himself a Republican and a Democrat and has even has gone so far to suggest that he could possibly choose a Republican as a running mate. This is all juxtaposed with a minister who hates rich white people and implies that the WTC victims deserved what they got because they were Americans, add to that a spouse that has never been proud to be an American (Why don’t they move to Kenya for Christ Sakes) and there is even a widely circulated rumor that his spouse is on a video talking about how much she hates whitey. No one in the democratic party as far as super delegates go is willing to risk the wrath of the black populace by not voting for BarackObama even though he may not be the winning or the right candidate. Furthermore the spouse of BarackObama has said that she is unwilling to see the former First Lady and Senator Clinton as the running mate of her precious husband. What is Hillary Clinton to do?
No one can deny that Hillary in the last part of the campaign has found her voice and is experiencing great momentum and I have to add that her campaign manager at the time is a Black Woman. Her prior campaign manager who absolutely positively did not know what she was doing or deliberately sabotaged the campaign “who knows” is poised to join the Obama team after the convention is over. As far as Patti Sweetie working for Obama, good luck she’s just a sludge collecting a check. She can turn gold into straw as she evidently did for Hillary Clinton.
In any event what is a woman with an over thirty million dollar general election war chest to do. If she is not chosen for VP by Obama and the Democrats should she just walk away or should she spend the money that she has earned in an independent run for the presidency. Well Known’s that have gone ahead to run as independents in general elections and won are Joe Lieberman and Roosevelt even ran as an independent and won, With a slate of a Republican and a Question Mark! or a Hillary Clinton, or even a Clinton. I think the Clinton would win. The polls have already shown that Hillary would win to John McCain and since the press and the democrats don’t like the way she does math in terms of how to win the Presidency she should take this math and use it in the general election and prove herself a winner. Finally since the majority of Americans do not know what it is like to be part of a party and don’t understand how the rules can prevent their votes from counting because most people literally thought that democrats and republicans were practically parties that were the government and not parties that were private social clubs that could not be sued for counting their votes.
Hillary Clinton if she runs as an independent can give them what they want an honest to God opportunity to vote for her and have their votes count. Hillary if you leave the democratic party no one will think this is a desperate ploy to sabotageBarrackObama. We will think that you truly believe in your heart that you have what it takes to represent this country and I personally thinkthat you would win if you chose a running mate of course that was male and not two women on ticket anything other than that, would be two “bitches” on a ticket.
With that said Hillary please drop the cries of female discrimination, It smacks of Geraldine Ferraro and Gerri has led you down the wrong road before. A winner always thinks that they have transcended whatever they are and you have, you have transcended gender and if you continue to talk about your gender problems you will not be able to run as an independentbecause you would have framed yourself as a bitter loser which you are not, you are not. Patti’s the loser not you. I’ve heard about the iron lady but you lost the previous races because frankly Patti did not give a you know what.
I personally had not heard about some of the things referenced about you until two days ago. In the Washington Post article entitledThe Sisters are Steamed , Howard Kurtz quotes Columnist Marie Cocco as being offended by the comments directed to Hillary Clinton. She says the following:
“I will not miss seeing advertisements for T-shirts that bear the slogan ‘Bros before Hos.’ The shirts depict BarackObama (the Bro) and Hillary Clinton (the Ho) and they are widely sold on the Internet.
“I will not miss walking past airport concessions selling the Hillary Nutcracker, a device in which a pantsuit-clad Clinton doll opens her legs to reveal stainless steel thighs that, well, bust nuts. I won’t miss television and newspaper stories that make light of the novelty item.
“I won’t miss episodes like the one in which the liberal radio personality Randi Rhodes called Clinton a ‘big [expletive] whore’ . . .
“I won’t miss Citizens United Not Timid (no acronym, please), an anti-Clinton group founded by Republican guru Roger Stone . . .
“I won’t miss political commentators (including National Public Radio political editor Ken Rudin and Andrew Sullivan, the columnist and blogger) who compare Clinton to the Glenn Close character in the movie ‘Fatal Attraction.’ . . . The airwaves will at last be free of comments that liken Clinton to a ’she-devil’ (Chris Matthews on MSNBC, who helpfully supplied an on-screenmockup of Clinton sprouting horns). Or those who offer that she’s ‘looking like everyone’s first wife standing outside a probate court’ (Mike Barnicle, also on MSNBC).”
I was truly shocked to hear of these comments and actions directed towards Senator Clinton but the obvious response in my mind was. She was women enough to be first lady, were you man enough to be the president. She was woman enough to be the Governor’s wife were you man enough to be Governor. Obviously the problem with people directing these comments towards Hillary Clinton is they suffer from don’t know what a penis is or how to use it disorder.
Finally, I have to take massive quotes from the Kurtz article again to justify why Clinton should go for the gold and run as in independent. Kurtz quotes the New York Times as writing the following:
“Mrs. Clinton’s all-but-certain defeat brings with it a reckoning about what her run represents for women: a historic if incomplete triumph or a depressing reminder of why few pursue high political office in the first place. ” Senator Clinton you should not leave it at this, the same media mourning your defeat is the same media that worked tirelessly to see that you were defeated, show them that you are not “defeated” run the race through with the democrats and if you feel that they have given you a pocket full of wooden nickels, be an Indies. Indies are so popular these days why not in politics too. “Be The Ultimate Indie
Finally what I would like to say is that a Clinton is a brand and I think that like Tide cleans our clothes well, I believe that Hillary Clinton has the will and the problem solving skills to clean up this country. I trust Hillary Clinton and that is so important in a presidential candidate.
The media is buzzing about McCains meeting with three perspective running mates and none of them are black. There are several Republican black hopefuls that could be added to the list the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, and Condelleeza Rice (who says she’s not interested) to name two. McCain in not trying to give Americans no alternative but to break the racial barrier is failing to give himself a decided advantage over Barack Obama by allowing the American people to affirm to themselves that they are not voting for Barack Obama because he’s black but because he’s shown a decidedly unpatriotic streak that another black contender does not have, if MCcain can manage to find a black candidate that is articulate, well liked, and accomplished than he has a good chance of winning the general election. A large part of the electorate is looking to assuage their guilt because of discrimination and our history of slavery by voting for Obama. The media is exploiting the class issuse so strongly becuase they are telling certain people that in not voting for Barack Obama they have not transcended race and are not sophisticated enough to vote for a black man. If McCain can find a patriotic, Christian black running mate that can be juxtaposed with Obama this will be the key to winning the general election of 2008. A straight up failure to acknowledge that the United States is ready to make a symbolic gesture of a woman or a black will surely end up in McCain’s failure to be President. Barack Obama is extremely charismatic and is willing to ride out issues that would make a different man give up. As for putting up an Indian for Vice President, McCain ignores a lot of facts regarding the racial pecking order in this country. As for a Mormon, Romney grew up in a polygamist family and what’s going on with the FCLD in Texas or whatever they are called would strongly make Romney a sitting Duck for attacks. However as formally stated on this blog it can not be denied that Romney appears to be a racist as well as a male chauvinist pig and in this election cycle this might be what people who are looking to go the complete opposite way of progress ie. a black or a woman may wish to go, I seriously doubt they make up enough of a majority to discount the economic situation in this country and be a die hard racist. Some people who are hopeless would like to at least make a symbolic vote for a different social order to show that even though things may not change their vote has helped to change a little of the status quo . However the media has not been as hard on Romney and his background as the blogosphere may be. Finally Charlie Crisp, the most striking thing I’ve seen about Crisp is he has extremely striking good looks competitive in looks with how Obama looks on TV and he seems to have a personality that is as sunny as the Florida skys but the article I’ve just read in the New York Times indicates that he may be a little bit too Law and Order for the times we live in. “Don’t taze me bro” is literally my motto.
You know I am not a member of the religious right. I was raised Christian and my most vivid experiences with religion are in the rural Virginia community of my grandparents at vacation bible school and Sunday School. What I remember most is not bible verses are endless Gospel Songs, but what is most vivid in my mind about this rural Virginia Community and religious experience is that people were just good to each other, they were good to me and they taught me to be kind. My Grandparents had the type of house that I could consider a lighthouse, anyone in pain or in trouble could count on my grandparents and their children to be the helping hand. Likewise in Georgia our house has become the house that people “strangers” come to when they are in trouble, when they need food, when they are evicted, when they need money, when they need to use the phone, and one night when a man was mugged on the street next to mine a man said he knocked on over ten doors for help until he reached our house and we opened this door. As I said at this point in my life I am not particulalry religious, I am not a loyal church goer and may never become one but from my early experiences with goodness I have come to the conclusion that there is a circular nature of right and wrong and my moral code is basically what goes around comes around, if people are mean to you be good to them because it will all comes back to you. This is why I am against abortion, because literally for me it does not feel right, it feels evil. In order to ascertain if my feelings are shared by persons of different backgrounds I have had the “abortion” discussion with people of different backgrounds. I have spoken with muslims and hindus who believethe practice is horrible. The muslim woman I spoke to was especially vehement that Allah was against abortion. After speaking with a couple of folks I realized that my abhorrence to abortion was legitimate and probably is anti to most world religions in the world with the exception of a satanic cult.
Virginia has stroke down the ban on partial birth abortion. According to this Washington Post blog. Virginia has deified a Supreme Court decision banning late term abortion, which upheld the following and stated the following:
The federal law defines partial birth abortion as the following:
“An abortion in which the person performing the abortion, deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother, or, in the case of breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother, for the purpose of performing an overt act that the person knows will kill the partially delivered living fetus; and performs the overt act, other than completion of delivery, that kills the partially delivered living fetus. (18 U.S. Code 1531)”
The Washington Post has a past article that defines partial birth abortion as the following:
“It involves partly delivering the fetus and then crushing the skull to make removal easier. It is this procedure that Congress made a crime. Opponents say it is a form of infanticide, because the fetus could be viable at the time. It made doctors who perform such surgery subject to up to two years in prison.”
While the states may not prosecute a physician for performing a partial birth abortion. It is my assumption that if a physician performs this procedure they may not go to state prison but they will go to Federal prison because it is against Federal Law.
The presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife have raised funds and even sent out an “abortion letter” highlights of the letter discussing a procedure that makes up less than ten percent of overall abortions were that women need to have the right to partial birth abortion because, denying them such a right affirms societies right to pay women less, beat women and give them substandard all around the world. You know Catholics are against ll forms of abortion but their good works all around the world are legendary. Barack Obama in this run for president does not even support Universal Health Care for all women, does not support lowering the gas tax for families and women so they can support themselves and their families. At this point in the fame it has not become clear what the motives are for supporting partial birth abortion so ardently, is it because it’s 1. a procedure Barack Obama has paid for in the past or 2) A procedure that Michelle Obama hs had in the past and needs to keep legal to assuage her guilt and the 10% of the 90% of individuals (abortion ladies as Anne Coulter calls them) that have participated in the procedure or 3) Is it a political tactic to show how loyal they are to what Anne Coulter calls the Church of Liberalism. I have no idea why Obama supports these people or this cause but the Virginia defieance of the Supreme Court Decision and Federal Law lets me know that a snowball will live in flames before I ever vote for Barack Obama and if things continue as they are Hillary either.
Finally in my disgust let me tell you what really goes through my mind about liberals. I think the price of gas is do high because the liberals are plotting to save the environment and want to reduce emissions so they have jacked the price up so hat only folks with shiny new low emissions cars can drive for leisure. I watched moveon accuse George Bush of blowing up the world trade center. However, Barack Obama is open friends with liberals who have admitted to plotting to blowing up buildings. In essence I believe that the liberals could have engineered this whole horrible economic catastrophe we are going through so they can get elected.
The above link is an opinion article that discusses Obama’s defense of his wife Michelle on GMA regarding the Republican ads repeating Michelle’s words that she was not proud of her country. Coming from Texas it is truly a memo. Chicago plays tough but when Texas plays tough the whole world hears about it. The Obama’s really need to toughen up a lot, the language Obama used in the interview was very much dictator like, ie. “I will not tolerate” could have literally been the words “off with their heads” “to the dungeons” they insulted my wife. Obama may speak to people within his campaign like this, but the last time I checked powerful people did not have the power to send an FBI detail on folks, call the police on them, sic the NSA on them, or do various actions that presidents have the power to do because they felt insulted by a commercial or the press. If he does this he will only be mimicking the corrupt regimes that aleady exist on a continent where the majority of heads of state are black.
If he does this I want every caucasion person to know that this man is not a descendant of a slave, he does not carry the same pain and the same blood as the majority of blacks of the diaspora meaning blacks that were brought here as slaves. Furthermore the majority of these diaspora blacks be they living in the United States, Jamaica, Haiti, Brazil or other places where slavery was once legal can not be blamed if Obama starts to show tyranical behvior once he becomes President. It is sad to say but Obama could return to Kenya now and be the President there if he so chose. None of us African hybrids of the Americans have a country to return to that we can be president of, this is our country and we have voluntarily give up our birthright to a native African. So don’t blame us if you feel a little likc you’re in a Puppet regime if and when Obama is elected. It’s in his blood.
In the above link democratic politico, Larry is absolutely positively positive that the ticking whitey time bomb video exists. He offers proof that he thinks that the video exists because Barack Obama goes so far as to call people “low class” for releasing videos of Michelle Obama. However Michelle is relevant we can’t have her plotting with Bin Laden’s many wives on how to blow up whitey now can we.
In any event I have heard Barack Obama say personally that he likes to appeal to casual voters that may not vote or usually do not vote. Statistically, the people who hardly ever vote are by social scientists considered the low class or the underclass and are not in the position to spread a video around the Internet. These are just the facts. Because of this I have to ask since a large part of people who are considered statistically low class are his constituents, What’s wrong with being low class, and does he have a plan to eliminate the low and the underclass once he gets in office since they are obviously never far from his mind whether he’s referring to the rural classes or the poor. What is this guy Marx or something. He show’s an incredible class consciousness that is totally unamerican.
I am quite surprised that the media has not mentioned the “low class comment” but this shows their deep seated bias against honest and fair journalism.
The video of Michelle Obama discussed by the blogger above may be video purchased from the “church” it contains video of Michelle Obama saying negative things about white people. Personally as I think about it this does not end the election, black people do have a case for being “bitter”, however these black people usually go through this stage when they are in their Freshman year of college and get out of it by their Senior Year. I would like to add that the more I talk to other black women and hear what they have to say they share common experiences. I being who I am always took my experiences personally and thought they were a reflection of people’s perceptions of me. I never dreamed that other black women were experiencing the same treatment as I. I don’t think this is a deal breaker if properly explained, there would have to be a press conference for this one if true. However, BarackObama can’t turn around and address an elite San Francisco audience and call rural people bitter and he has an obviously bitter one in his household. If this is true BarackObama might want to try to salvage something and be Vice-President, then again maybe not. According to this blogger it is a Clinton supporter releasing this information held by the GOP. However, accordingly if the democratic party continues to deliver as they have this week, they may not care that BarackObama’s spouse has a race problem.
I could have sworn that Obama mentioned the farm bill as shall I say one of the accomplishments that he supported. The status of BarackObama during the farm vote was absent according to this NewYork Times article. Obama waxed hard about his support of the rural folks through the passage of this bill, how they deserved it, how great they were etc. and HE WAS NOT EVEN THERE. These are the antics that Momma Michelle had to deal with when he had to pay off a million ticket that he had gotten at least fifteen years ago when he was attending Harvard Law School. They were paid just before he ran for office. Teenage College lies and untruths or lets just say truthiness.
The other issue surrounding Barack Obama is that he used the word sweeie. This is not as irritating as the fact that the media keeps giving us crotch shots of barack and focusing on his behind. “Enough Already”
If a white person had all of this racial stuff chasing them they would have dropped out of the race by now. However apparently the liberal media believes in a double standard.
Rumours are hot that their is a tape with Michelle Obama railing against “whitey”. Obama drop out! Your senatorial opponent dropped out with scandal but obviously you won’t!
RETARD
You know there was a name that I found particularlyoffensive when I was a youngster and luckily it was never applied to me but my mother who is a teacher told me that it was a short term name used to describe special education students at the time. I suppose some child overheard this term being used and decided to bring it to the table of insults that children participate in. At this moment I am teaching myself a new skill for my business and apparently awaiting another news conference becauseBarackObamaand his cult of followers have perceived that he has been called a NAME by the Texas Talking president of the United States who I might add no one can ever forget how the fellow Texan Ann Richards murmured the words that Bush Senior walks around with the proverbial foot in his mouth. This was at a democratic convention and I think elder bush was a sitting President at the time. Fortunately for us Elder Bush did not think it needed a news conference. In addition has anyone ever seen the cartoon Little Bush, well fortunately their is not a news conference after every statement, or even episode of Lil Bush. “THANK GOD”
Finally, if the statement was referring to anyone it was probably President Carter who had met with Hammas, with according to President Bush Jr. no luck. As for Obama is he a SPED or something. I have never seen such codling in my life? Has he never been insulted before? The one thing I can say about the Republican Debate, it was funny. The one think I can say about the Republican race was it was a high stakes game with winner take all, there was no molly coddling here. You won or you lost. Evidently BarackObama is not used to these types of competitions, he’s crying already. However even he is taking it to far to start crying over something where h is name was not even mentioned directly. What is he a punk or something, or even worst a SPED. I guess not, I guess he’s not a sped otherwise his momma Michelle Obama would be giving him the news conference then again she probably will write the speech and carRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL tell him what to say. However, she just could not hide the fact that she’s making the decision for Vice Presidential running mate. LITTLE MOMMA take care of the BOY !
What the media partrays and shows as a sound bite of Edwards saying one good thing about Obama is about Edwards saying one good thing about Obama; otherwise it was a Hillary fan speech, combined with an Edwards stump speech that ended up splashing a very cold bucket of water on the attendees of the Obama rally as it became pretty obvious that most people in the audience knew where Obama really stood as it related to Universal health care and the economically disadvantaged.
Edwards is not a fan of Obama, Edwards believes from the bottom of his heart to the tips of his toes that Obama is a Republican. Not a values voting Republican but a Greedy big money oil speculating republican. I suppose in my view I would have to add personally Obama would have to combine the worst of both the republicans and the democrats. The Republican greed and the democratic lust for baby blood in the form of abortions even up to the end of the birth cycle. This is what I got from the speech Edwards gave. In translation Edwards was saying we have to rally around this nominee now if we ever hope to have a democratic president. Democrats can not continue to knock each other out with a two by four leading to nothing. Edwards was saying that any democrat is better than no democrat.
However I really don’t believe that any democrat is better than no democrat. In terms of Obama’s concern for the poor his ties with the slum lord Tony Rezcowhere poor families went without heat in a brutal Chicago Winter without any assistance from BarackObama even free heaters for the poor indicate that the poor could not do any worst than Obama, Obama’s refusal to support a gas tax holiday for what would most benefit the poor, lower gas prices; a quarter discount could make the difference between getting to work and not in terms of miles per gallon; and most of all Obama’s refusal to support Universal Health care for everyone adults and children indicate to us all that Obama can never meet the concern standards for the poor that Clinton and Edwards have espousedthroughout the whole campaign. It has become obvious that McCain meets the compassionate threshholdmoreso that Obama. It is becoming pretty obvious that an Obama presidency maybe more harmful to the poor than a Bush presidency has become. In any event I seriously question around rallying around a candidate that has shown over and over that he has no concern for the poor. I think a compassionate Republican could probably be more beneficial to the poor than an uncaring democrat.
Personally as it relates to the recent incidents with the poor, particularly Hurricane Katrina I do not dump the responsibility solely on the shoulders of FEMA but believe that Ray Nagin should get at least 60% of the blame for canceling the bus routes to get the people out of the flood zone, and not doing enough to get them out of the area. Nagin was warned and did not do enough to try to salvage the lives of the citizens of his city. Blood rests on his hands. I say all of this to say that Blacks want a black president but this does not mean that he is the best qualified or that he will particularly look out for their interests. The blacks of California have learned this through the school of hard knocks and I learned that at one point a largely black WATTS had elected a white mayor. African Americans really need to think seriouslyabout who they support and if the individuals they elect are thoughtful enough, smart enough, and compassionate enough to fully and truly represent African Americans, Blue Collar Americans, Poor Hispanics, and Poor Whites. In Obama’s case I think not. As for the media, if their sponsors advertise something you can’t afford such as LV bags, Jaguar cars, and other luxury goods, The poor need to seriously consider if the news is representing their interests. You can afford Tide, You can not afford a fancy airplane ride to Singapare if you are working at McDonalds however you may be able to afford cable to listen to this brand of news. Critically think and realize that certain media outlets can not possibly represent the interests of the poor and the economically challenged. “WAKE UP”
You know people discuss all that Bill Clinton did for black people. The truth is that as evident in how they are fighting to get in the white house. Black People did an awful lot for Bill and Hill they voted for them. This is why they were able to do something for black people. It is pretty evident that black people were a means to an end for Bill and Hill. If they really cared deeply for black people as they claimed to Hillary Clinton would drop out of the race and let black people have a black president. They were cheated out of having a black vice presidential nominee of Jesse Jackson in the eighties and obvioulsy the democrats lost. Neither democrat will get the “real” evangelists or values voters who seem to be making the difference for the republicans because of they both are heavy supporters of abortion. In addition black people are not the only ones sho support Barack OBama, Everybody supports him. I have come to the conclusion that Barack Obama played the game fairly, he played the game to win. This is generational change. This generation is not afraid of color. If Hillary Clinton gets the nomination, I will be a very public protester. Bill and Hill need to leave the dirty tricks at home. We all know that the popular vote will not win an election, it is the number of delegates you have. At this point Hillary Clinton needs to leave gracefully, no elected super delegate is going to risk their office to see Barack Obama cheated out of what is rightfully his. White people say they hate affirmative action, Hillary Clinton should stop asking for it.
I have tried to stand by Hillary Clinton through thick and through thin because I believe/possibly believed that she is a good woman and a qualified candidate. I am completely objective so most of the time class, racial, economic issues do not have a bearing on my judgement of character, I once took a career aptitude test long ago that said my personality was so objective that a suggested career path for me was a judge. With all of that said, I am going to say the following I do not believe that Hillary Clinton should drop out of the race because she trails Obama, this is something that could have been dealt with with a good old fight to seat Florida and Michigan delegates as well as an appal to the Superdelegates that she had a level head and was more qualified to lead us through these extremely tough times we live in. However lately with every word that comes out of her mouth it’s apparent to me that she does not possess the sound judgement to lead this country.
A President is supposed to want to represent ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME
I first got a strong whiff of shall I say racism when Former President Clinton said something to the effect of so what if BarackObama won South Carolina, Jesse Jackson did too. I was appalled when I heard this because I immediately recognized Clinton was saying that a black man could not win. I however remembered that the Clinton’s had solved the National debt and put some good programs on the table that helped everyone and continued to support Hillary Clinton, also because of the abortion issue with BarackObama. Bill Clinton said another thing that struck me as strange that “BarackObama was living in a Fairy Tale” At the time I thought that people were over reacting and “living in a fairy tale” was referencing the extremely white glove treatment the media was giving BarackObama; however as the race has gone on and I have heard Senators Clinton’s repetitive reference to the fact that she represents Blue Collar and White Americans, I am beginning to believe that the Fairy Tale Comment was alluding to Obama’s race and for the record I want to respond by saying that any black person who meets the criteria for running for President, by being over 35, of sound mind, and not a felon, is not living in a Fairy Tale for Thinking they could win the Presidency. Finally, the next oddity regarding the Clinton’s was the trotting out of Geraldine Ferraro who said if Obama were a white man he would not have gotten that far in the election, and I have echoed the same in this blog but the caveat is if Hillary were a white man with her credentials she would have not have gotten this far, as a matter of fact if she had been a white man she probably would have been laughed out of running for any political office as a sissy running in the coat tails of his wife. In addition as I read about Geraldine Ferraro I learned that she had deep sixed Jesse Jackson’s run for the vice presidency in 1984 or 1988 at the convention therefore resulting in a failing team of Mondale and Ferraro. I think Ferraro succeeded in deadening the ticket immediately as it was revealed that she was a former substance abuser.
A Badly Run Campaign
Hillary Clinton literally had the keys to the White House in her hand. She and Bill Clinton had left the white house and by the time they left the National Debt was eradicated, the economy was good, they had created jobs, and kept gas prices and food prices low. Bill Clinton had been a strong and a good leader and by the end of his terms left office as the Black Person’s best friend. It was very disappointing to realize during Hillary Clinton’s run for office that accentuating the positive would not be the strategy that would be used. I have written to the campaign and I said all you have to do is keep reciting the positive aspects of the Clinton years and you will win. All you have to do is state that you will continue most of the positive strategies that were used in the Clinton administration and you will win. Hillary Clinton and Gore obviously don’t think there were any or did not remember the good times of Clinton years and chose the dangerous path of trying to reinvent the wheel. I think failure to know how to Follow Bill Clinton has resulted in this dismal losing campaign. The Hillary Clinton presidential campaign is beginning to look a lot like H. Clinton’s first stab at a Universal Health Care plan it should have gone through and if you would have had to bet on it going through you would have placed your bet on Hillary and you would have lost, the Health Care Plan, did not go through, however the big caveat is that Laura Bush’s education plan did go through and make no mistake it was Laura’s plan and desire for this bill to go through. The tenets come straight from the observers point of view 1. I see really intelligent children who are just not being taught, they are being left behind. 2. I wish these children could go to quality schools like more affluent children maybe this may make the difference. etc. etc. etc. This is why the education bill was put through on day one of the Bush administration because Mrs. Bush wanted it to be put though and was willing to make it a presidential issue not a first lady issue. I say all of this to say to Hillary Clinton that sometimes you have to sit back and let others do the work for you. They will get the job done. However, Bill was not the man to run her campaign as evident in his racist comments, Bill’s Campign manager James Carville is wise enough and aware enough to have given Hillary what she wanted the Presidency but she chose to blaze her own path when everyone knows that the quickestwas to success is through imitation. Finally, the time are different and when I saw Benazhir Bhutto’s assasination I sort of knew that Hillary Clinton would not win because these are different times and what worked yesterday does not work today. Benazhir erred by sticking her head out of the van, she erred in her arrogance that she could control the situation. In the society we live in no one person can conrol everything, you have to let go, in the words of Hillary Clinton “It takes a Village” , Barack Obama has a Village
In Closing
Hillary Clinton I honestly do believethat ii is time for you to say goodbye and let Obama do the work he has to, to try and win, I personally I am holding out for McCain Rice but any superdelegate worth their salt and their elective position does not want to see you win through superdelegate votes because what this means is that they have to go back to their hometown and have people look at them as the person who may have voted for the woman who claims to be the voice of the working class and the white folks, when frankly that has always been the cry of the republicans. However democrats since the late 60’s have been the voice of minorities, the liberals, the poor, the working class, the technologists, and others. Hillary your message just is not getting through, and I seriously doubt that Super Delegates are going to risk committing political suicide by voting for you. HILLARY IT”S TIME TO GET OUT OF THE RACE STOP MAKING BILLS FOR YOU AND BILL GET OUT, AT THIS POINT YOUR RUN HAS BECOME A RICH LADY’S WHIM!
The United States has a stinky little economic problem and one reason is becuase well the quality of the work force is just not up to par. Many people are self concioulsy getting degrees from any entity out there and wearing it like some huge gold icon arround their necks when the fact is that they have not been classically educated to be critical thinkers. Why do I say this? I say this because I have watched the elctorate cycle be manipulated by the media this whole election cycle. The media crafted an Obama voter and said rich people and blacks vote for Obama, educated folks and blacks vote for Obama when the honest truth is that people who vote for Obama appear to be individuals who have not been trained to be critical thinkers and this scares me and if we continue to go down this road the United States economy will be worth one penny.
Why do I say this?
Well I think that it’s become pretty obvious to many that Obama is not loyal to this country unless as Michelle Obama says he becomes elected president and then she and probably she speaks for him they can finally be proud of this country. Well if they don’t win I suppose they will go somewhere in a hole somewhere and plot with the former members of weather underground on how to blow up the next building. Well since he probably will get the nomination becasue according to the media anyone who does not support the views GOD DAMN AMERICA is uneducated, blue collar, drinks beer and is just so tresunchic. I suppose you can compare supporting Obama to purchasing a high class mood ring, a pet rock, or even a rubriks cube, if you do not support Obama according to the media you are definitely not in or maybe just maybe you can not afford to get a fill up at the pumps therefore you should vote for weather underground and reverend wright because if you don’t you are low class, poor, and uneducated.
Not by the color of their Skin but by the Content of their Character
These are some of the most profound words uttered by a man, a great man Martin Luther King Jr. as far as black people are concerned as it relates to BarackObama they have no concious. If this were the segregated south and blacks were whites. The black people supporting BarackObama would surely be the ones standing idly by as white people were left lynched hanging from a tree. Over and over they have ignored the character of Obama making their lives and their work sand castles that are easily washed away with the Obama wave. The largest sand castle in this Obama wave most definitely would be the Black Church. Obama not only was a passionate supporter of third term abortion, but according to a nurse who worked to outlaw third term abortion, Obama worked towards preventing the outlawing of the ban against this procedure that involves cracking the skull of a fetus and sucking it out of its mother’s womb, and if it’s still alive when it comes out of the womb it is hit in the heart with a stake to fully kill it. THIS IS WHAT THE BLACK CHURCH OVERWHELMINGLY SUPPORTS; I SUPPOSE THIS CALLS INTO QUESTION IS THE BLACK CHURCH A SOCIAL CLUB OR DOES IT FULLY FOLLOW THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS CHRIST, OR EVEN BELIEVE IN THE COMMANDMENT THOUGH SHALL NOT KILL I suppose if we examine some of the pathology in the black community could we find that based on their overwhelming support of an individual who supported the killng of live fetuses that the black church fails in leading their flock because they are not truly cognizant of what Christianity stands for. A religious leader who has no moral compass can not lead a flock into leading normal productive lives but can only produce a flock that has his or her same qualities. It’s a little like the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, the leader of this group only perpetuates his flawed worldview unto his flock and this is what the black church has done with their dogged support of a man who hates America, is for the worst kind of abortion, and is a former if not current drug abuser. The Black church has in it’s support for Obama has shown that they are not better then the leaders of the Catholic church when they refused to excommunicate Hitler, and he still has not been excommunicated. These religious leaders are showing why only the bible says a remnant will go to heaven, why Jesus had to literally reform the Church and take it away from corrupt men.
You know as I have revisited and reread about the 911 horror. I have increasingly come to the realization that in terms of strategic interests of the United States; the invasion of Iraq and I do mean invasion whether anyone wants to admit it or knows it or not was a good move. I think what people need to realize is that Al Qaeda is a terrorist organization made up of Muslims from all over the Islamic world especially the Middle East. While George Bush Jr. holds hands with the Saudis, their native son Bin Laden unleashed an unparalleled attack on the homeland of the United States resulting in more human losses, than Pearl Harbor that ultimately led to the dropping of the Big Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and people are still wondering why not Hitler and I have to add that this attack on Japan in my opinion was racially motivated. In any event a native son of an ally released an unprecedented terror attack on our homeland. What this says to me is that these particular allies were not looking out for the best interests of the United States. This was so heavily emphasized when the then newly minted national security advisor Condeleeza Rice stated on one occasion that intelligence for the United States in the Middle East was something to the effect of a nightmare. There were so many barriers in language, religion etc that finding comprehensive intelligence in the middle east was a literal impossibility. With this said I do know that Hussein was not responsible for 911, I do know that he did not have weapons of mass destruction, but I also do know that he was a tyrant and had no conscious when killing. He was a bad bad person. His weakness and his meanness presented a strategic opportunity to invade his country and we did it and this is one thing I do know without having to read about it, we have more intelligence resources that we had before 911. I suppose the critics of the post will say that we do not have enough intelligence to catch Bin Laden, no we don’t but Bin Laden is being protected by an international network of people who hate the United States. As witnessed by the comments of Obama’s minister in the wording of God Damn America, and Chicken’s coming home to roost, as spoken by Obama’s ivy league scholarship and state paid for education who has not been proud of America yet, these people might very well be United States Citizens who are assisting the worldwide harboring of a criminal and murderer. As acted on by Obama’s friends one a former member of weather underground who used to go around blowing up buildings, our enemies may just be within and from their actions and their words have an interest in bringing the United States to their knees. These individuals may have in some cases been privy to the secret knowledge that everyone knows that citizens had about the 911 incident. I say all of this to say that Obama is a lunatic, he has been since he would send away for the tapes of Reverend Wright and listen to them in his dorm room. Sure the young people are supporting Obama but ultimately it is up to older people to wake them up to 1. how good they really do have it in the United States and 2. to make them realize who these extreme wild eyed liberals really are and what they have done and tried to do to the United States in the past. We need to also need to make them read about 911, read about the lives that were lost, the children who are without parents, the parents that are without children, and the spouses without mates and it will become pretty obvious that Obama is a lunatic and hangs with individuals who very well could have connections to Bin Laden and probably at least one of them could tell you where to find Bin Laden. OBAMAHEll NO ! Finally I do want an African American president and it is unfortunate that all of the work done by Dr. Rice and General Powell were torn down in one egotistical narciccistic stroke by Obama’s trying to justify listening to a radical minister. It’s not Reverend Wright’s fault he is who he is, it’s Obama’s fault for following this guy and black people or white people do not have anything to do with this. This is not “our” problem, this is his and the lousy playing of the race card is low. Finally why won’t Obama go against the Oil companies, probably because he is looking to them to funnel some money into his campaign somehow. In closing, I went to church following 911 and the minister prayed for relatives from our church and former members who dies in the 911 tragedy. We ahd a moment of silence and the minsiter discussed how terrible it was that our country had been attacked. Their was no rejoicing in the black church I attended that Sunday.
The link to the blog entry above is why the General started hollering about Mc Carthyism. I kept telling myself that I could not understand what Bill Clinton said that was so bad. This blog reveals some shocking news about Barack Obama. This is the smoking gun!
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Barack Obama’s Administration’s top Contender for Treasury Secretary Continues on with the thread of Sexism of the Obama Campaign
In politics on November 8, 2008 at 8:14 pmI have a friend who used to go around quoting Ravi Batra. It was a mantra. Every conversation was injected with his economic theories and beliefs. I was so inundated with talk of Batra. I finally read the book my friend let me borrow. I liked this book because every idea was fresh and it was full of theories I had never been exposed to. Batra talked about economic cycles and the types of groups that would control the cycle. Some economic cycles were controlled by what he termed aquisitors, people from the business cycle, and others were controlled by other types of groups it’s been a long time so I don’t exactly remember all the groups. However there was one theory about a particular group that made me catch my breath in shock and think “say it isn’t so”. This was the theory that when economic cycles are controlled by intellectuals sexism and discrimination rises and the life chances of women are more challenging. I had not given this theory much of a thought until I observed how the Obama campaign and now administration in waiting has treated women. I would use the term short. The Obamites treat women short. They make a crazy comment and then act like its no big deal. However it is.
Obama’s embrace of various characters who have been mean and rude and put women down is actually quite disappointing. For a man who’s awfully committed to abortion rights even saying that if a baby lives during a third term abortion to seek medical care for a child born alive that you can touch, feel, has all of his toes, and fingers, etc. would interfere with a woman’s right to choose. He has shown a lack of indifference for men who say nasty things about women. His associates and his choices indicate that his passion for abortion is not particularly for women but for men who don’t want babies. While I love his family and think they are beautiful, his passionate support of abortions always makes me question how many babies did he abort to get to this family ten, twenty, thirty, one hundred. His passionate support of abortion at any costs casts his beautiful family into the farce category for me. In other words the one area where Obama says he supports women seems to be awfully self serving.
The areas where Obama could have made a significant impact and difference in the lives of women in doing something symbolic and life changing for women such as choosing Hillary Clinton for the VP slot was not done and by not choosing Hillary Clinton he showed a remarkable callousness towards the feelings of women. While some would argue that they had a rather nasty primary fight, if the goal is to be as successful as the Clinton Administration who were rumored to have despised Al Gore but chose him anyway because they thought he would help them win the presidency then Obama is not headed in the direction of compromise for the good of the contry. Even though Obama did win the election the choice for VP of a man who dropped out of the election first show’s a startling unwillingness to do what’s best for the country, but to do what’s best for his ego. In other words the woman Hillary Clinton was the best qualified for the slot but Obama chose Biden who dropped out of the race early for his ego. Not only did he choose Biden a man who stroked his ego for VP. He chose Biden a man who had shown a remarkable animus towards women. [see my blog entry on Biden, I remeber how he treated Anita Hill].
As I read about possible Treasury Secretary candidates, I was a little taken aback to see that Larry Summers was leading the list considering that he said “women were not genetically equipped to excel in Science and Mathematics. I was not particularity surprised that Obama would put this man as a major adviser on his campaign with his views towards women because I had given up on Obama after seeing the Palin wink commercial.
A commercial that I equated to the equivalent of a Willie Horten ad. Willie Horten was a criminal that the republicans used in an election to scare people into voting for George W. Bush in 1988.
Willie Horton Ad
After seeing the Palin ad, a Horten ad with different names and different circumstances. An ad that was directed to a woman with five children and was the leader of a state. I was pretty convinced that Obama and his administration will not be woman friendly so hearing the news that Summer’s a top Obama adviser thought women were not genetically disposed to math and science was not surprising.
As I began to think about Summers I remembered also that he was also that guy who could not get along with the Harvard University Faculty and had to resign as President of Harvard. I felt a strong sense of deja-vu as I read this and thought about one person I read about who kept being shuttled from the presidency of one company to another and being let go with a multi million dollar parachute. This analogy fits Summers. When you hang around with people from a certain group they are going to keep giving you high level positions whether you are emotionally equipped for them or not.
It is ironic that the first “Black” President of the United States is a sexist.