I said nothing about grammar or spelling.

That made me laugh though.

If you've read my posts, I've been called the Hitler of misspelling.

I've got that on anybody here!

I didn't say I wasn't giving you any benefit of doubt:reread-I agreed with ya.

Those suggestions I gave came directly from an Intepersonal Communication course I took in college a few years ago.

I decided on it after going through my divorce...I wanted to find out my own culpability in that. I knew I was not good at always relaying my own feelings. I attribute and "blamed", I guess, my own mom/dad for thier lack of expression-so as an example to follow-I had none. So my feelings got buried.

By the time I'd gotten to the age I am, the feelings had piled up so much like blankets over me--that I could not find who I was or what I stood for anymore. I was suffocating from the blankets-but it was like a big rubber-band ball that had gotten so intertwined-I couldn't separate them all. Couldn't recognize what they were, where they came from. I also knew that if I didn't find out who I was and how to express myself in a way that didn't push people away-I would just go back, possibly get in another relationship, and repeat the same unhappiness all over again/mistakes.

In addition to this, I went back to ask myself questions about life, soul, conscience,religion...to have some sort of core based on-not what others wanted me to think, or how they defined me. I stripped myself bare. Let go of all the prejudices in my mind(no not racial).

I threw off all the blankets-one by one. Anger,self-worth,vanity,ego,money,intelligence,any way I defined myself....kissed it goodbye for good.

Became who I wanted to be-am still becoming...stopped looking at the past and lamenting it-the wrong turns,the mistakes...

They weren't mistakes at all: they were part of me finally growing up. Nor did I assume that being my age I had acquired any "wisdom"-or entitlement by age. I am whatever age my mind has me believe-just as you are whatever your mind thinks it is,at any second in time. I have the right to change my mind, to grow, to expand from one second to the next. I can be, feel,experience only what is real to me at that given second in time. It's why labels- I won't accept at all.

It's also in this my respect for(disrespect for actually-)anyone who tries to quote, use comparisons...I'll give no respect to. If someone wants to stay stuck in the circular argument of thier minds, I may try to throw a right turn in there. After so many tries though, I'll let them go back to thier Nascar track.

So I'm still in my own metaphysical, existential journey of my purpose in life.I will respond to those who want to enlighten me on that journey-but quoting facts really bores the shit out of me. I don't define myself by others words-why should you? So my attempts have been to find out who you are, why you feel the way you do about things---that is what interests me. How you came to the conclusions you have(not you in particular, but anyone).

Anyhooo-sorry to be so longwinded.

Later.

btw-I really don't want any response to my comment on this, these are my views and I Bethincary endorse this message.

What you project outword to the worl-pos/neg----is exactly what you will get back.

I'm glad Barack Obama knows this.

We desperately need someone in this country who does know this.

If you go back and look-I've been giving GG shit for the past 3 days now about his posts-and caught quite a bit of it myself for not being in the Amen chorus.

But from the first post you attacked GG and why a liberal/independent news would be making this post-as opposed to a GOP one.

So after thinking about it and your posts-I'm not so sure that you aren't right.

After all, it's really more blacks like yourself that need to stand up and call bullshit on any racist "hidden meaning" innuendo implied by a racist group. Perhaps saying it loud, and with more representation-even if they deny the charges-you've still raised awareness to it. That did get the Harold Ford ad pulled. So perhaps with GG floating it now-you can send a message to other blacks too-to stand up and fight in a large massive way-to nip it in the bud before it is even started.

I do however, think you took your eye off the ball in the fight. You could have brought up Harold Ford, Reagans "states rights" or any number of arguments the GOP has used in the past. You instead, got sidelined responding to each poster.

I also agree with you on Obama not catering to liberal elitism-Dems are a big party-so to want to segment now is absurd when we finally have such a unifying candidate. I posted earlier that liberal elitism is what killed Kerry in 04.

Let's just let Obama be the man/leader he is-and not try to project our own wants onto him. He's already got a proven track record of doing what is right for communities-despite interests (lobbyists...)