He sticks his foot in the door for attention by starting out like he's some kind of smart assed Lenny Bruce, and then layer by gradual layer, he lays out the aganda of the other, that he would wish you out in the blogoshere, to share in his enthusiasm of otherizing. And what's this? Islam is the new nigger? What's next years nigger, and do I wanna know?

..that I feel more fortunate than I ever figured I'd ever feel that some of the most famous promises of the 60's, might finally have a chance flourish, after many of the promises of that transitional era have become deflated by cyclical cynicism and deep seated defeatism. Smith, you might think in your fear frought imagination that independents are being bled by Obama, but only the opposite is true, independents are being fed by Obama, fed and fortified with hope and optimism. Fear won't fly, yet hope is as boudless as space and time.

Does this mean that my dog is exonerated?

My dog whose name is Omar, is not, has never been, nor will he ever be, a member of an international terrorist organisation. And yes, he is smarter than most people.

What will be the shelf life be with this little drop in the ocean of emotion? It's beyond expired in my book.

Are you starting to sense a certain why can't we all be 100% the same suburban smirkiness too?

I hear ya! It's "bred" into people, The point I made is, that with many of my grandmother's generation color consciousness, or contempt for people of color, was "inculturated" into them. I'm glad you could see through all the gauze around this itchy issue too by bringing out the actual text of the speech. This racism was inculturated, because it was acceptable to the culture of the time. This culture was enabled and existed by way of institutional racism. The old establishment.

Obama is not having as much difficulty with indpendents as you might imagine. I'm neither a Democrat or a Republican, but a non-aligned, fully registered independent, and THE issue at the top of my top concerns is the war. This I feel is an issue with many other independents as well, and I will not ever even entertain the idea of giving the benefit of the doubt to a candidate such as Clinton, who voted not with calm reason or with her conscience, but with public perceptions pertaining to presenting a public visage of toughness as her first career concern. Her senate vote sinks and scuttles away any sympathy I could hypotheticically mange to hold for her quest to be president. I thnk her senate vote was sick, cynical, oppurtunistic, and obscene.

I wish you were my uncle. "I'm Spartacus...no...I'm Spartacus!...NO!...I'm Spartacus!!"

Thanks man, you're a cool cat of boundless humor and humanity.

It's still the Kentucky Derby:

Obama 48% Clinton:45%

...could spin this discussion off into a discussion on tastes in opera.

Look into your crystal ball and make a call on the "core" as you call it. What does that make everybody else? Marginal? If so, the marginal are evidently in the majority, and on the march, and making more and more daily momentum.

"eternal thought in the mind of god." Wasn't that a Laurence Olivier line from Spartacus?

it's not past your sleep time, it is though way past the time of your lens on the world.

I could support that all the way. Pay'em and spay'em. Neuter'em and nugde 'em out the door.

I unscrew your head and shit down your kneck.

skin.

I don't know about you folks, but my grandmother used to talk about the old days when "certain people should always know their proper place in society." I don't think it's improper that Obama cited a very significant example of racial elitism, relating it from his own family. He cited this anecdote, brought it out into the open, and all that's resulted from this is some understanding, and some white indignation, some of it very livid, much of it coming from older white women. I don't believe that Obama has ever lost any love or affection for his grandmother, I do though believe he was illustrating by example, that many white people of his grandmother's time were inculturated with eletist ideas, that had their underlying basis in the color of a human being's s

Where are you steering this discourse? Into stories about your Baptist upbringing? Sprig time weather in Texas? Internet snipes at Hillary? And your own undisguised, endless discomfort, with a candidate of color? Where and what is your bottom line, and just where are you taking this juggling act?

I could support that. I could even support it as a part of planned parenthood's list of services.

blank, is your mind as blank as your posts?

My dog's name is Omar, as I'm sure I've mentioned many times before, and I will assure you still, that he still has no ties of which I am aware to international terrorism. Take in easy folks, Obama in '08. Come on Om's let's go!

I thnink you bring up a realistic challenge.

I am MORE than ready to move forward.

I'm glad to read a brief commentary from a person who obviously lives on the same planet that I do. Thanks.

Oh what a Prankster.

Has just called Bill Richardson "a Judas."

..."the texan" is anybody "eliminated" from anything on your say so?

Fortunately your narrow outlooks aren't widely representative of the real spirit of the state of Texas. Wake up and smell the bluebonnets.

...and you don't see so well, or better put, you see only that which it serves you to see. Get a new argument or a pair of prescription lens.

A Clinton no hitter.

Did G. Gordon get his old job back again? Stay tuned.

Wagner would have liked that one.

Thanks Bill, You're not so bad yourself, welcome aboard.