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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
You like O'Bama and Reagan. Let me guess.
You are Irish!!!
and have the courage to evolve and value one's race, national orgin, religion, gender...etal...
MLK mantra worked then because white racism was so ignorant, inhumane and lethal but this mantra is now obsolete... a color blind society is a reality in denial and ignores and wastes the assets of those who bring thier race, gender, national orgin, religion etc to the table..
The real measure of MLK is can you value me becuase I am Black, White, Gay, Arab, Asian, Jew, Wica, Pagan..etc...
This is the America and mountain top I want to attain and live in..
lol,lol,lol
I don't think a Presidential race has ever looked more like a nation of squabbling children.
The candidates bicker like teens who have to share a bedroom. Their acolytes spread malicious gossip. Party loyalists dream of a ticket that resembles a politically correct homecoming couple. The news media (Salon included) treats this as if it's a popularity contest, Biff versus Buffy, and ask us to believe their ownership by corporate conglomerates, themselves owned by military-industrial monoliths, have nothing to do with their juvenile coverage. The general voters wander from classroom to classroom, watching the clock, measuring time as the distance between recess and lunch, recess and "school's out."
I'm a seething political animal and I'm bored of this goddam election. It's just like high school, with the news more relevant or intriguing than the "anonymous" gossip page of the high school paper. HC dissed BO in the hallway! What cute lawyer was seen pending fifteen minutes on hi sharing the boys bathroom?!
I can't imagine any candidates more bland than the cardboard cutouts presented by the political parties as the cream of their crop. America must be suffering a severe political blight if these joker are our best produce.
I can tell you that myself, some friends and family have gotten turned off by the Clinton's behaviour to do anything to win and we will not vote for her if she gets the Democratic nomimnee. Their behavior and distortions like at Meet the Press in which Hilalry said: "Sen. Obama's chief strategist accuses me of playing a role in Benazir Bhutto's assassination.'' When in actuality David Axelrod never made such an accusation. He said former Prime Minister Bhutto's death will ''call into issue the judgment'' of ''taking the eye off the ball and making the wrong judgment in going into Iraq.'' and their recent attempt in voter suppresion in Nevada has shown a lot of people another side to them we did not know existed and it does not look pretty. They have divided the paty and it is a deep division. They seem more like Karl-Rove Republicans than Democrats and it is a shame to see their moral demise!
"Does a victory in South Carolina, based on the African-American vote, undercut Obama's biracial strategy and get him tagged as a black candidate?"
What a short-sighted question. Obviously a win is going to help Obama more than a loss. A win is a win. No one is going to change their minds about Obama because he WON South Carolina. A win will only enhance his appeal among all voters.
It's not like Obama supporters are going to wake up on Sunday after Obama's win in South Carolina and suddenly change their votes. It will only strengthen their cause. And if you didn't like Obama before a South Carolina win, you are not going to like him any less because of one.
Has anyone wondered how, if Clinton can raise Obama to the level of an enemy with a full-throttled attack on him, with Bill the flamethrower leading the way, have you thought of how many enemies she's going to make in the White House? If you think that she's going to represent the Democratic Party in her dealing with the G.O.P. that may be wishful thinking. She will be representing her own wing of the Democratic Party (as she has made abundantly clear so far to her opponent's supporters--who she has more vociferously attacked than she has Bush). As her comments about Johnson imply, she may be overly opitimistic about Presidential power alone being enough to put her agenda into action.
Hasn't anyone told her about the need for allies when you are engaging in battles? Seriously. Going it alone didn't work too great for another entitled leader. Think coalition, Hill, think consensus. Winning the Democratic nomination may be the easiest part of the struggle. She still has to conquer in a general election, and she has to lead once she is in the white house.
So far, I see her only focused on the immediate--not her longer term strategy.
Of course a black man can win the presidency.
That is, a qualified black man.
That caveat would exclude the current african-american option.
Obama, I Love You, Please Be My God!
Only YOU can save us, our glorious Leader! Oh living God, we worship at your feet. And you're CUTE!
Please get a grip! Add something to the discussion for crissakes! While Obama supporters have been accused of being "immature," seems like it's Clinton's supporters--or at least it is in your case--that are acting like kindergartners!
Purposefully orchestrating issues of race and gender to get back into the White House, appealing to the Hispanic votes on an ethnic basis in NV while taking advantage of their vulnerabilities, the Clintons are truly playing out what Dick Morris, intimately familiar with the Clintons' scorched earth politics predicted: that they would inject race, with each story individually spun, so that collectively the divisive race issue would create a media story while the Clintons' complicity in the incitement will avoid detection or blame. I'm so sickened by the Clintons at this point -- I’m having the same reaction to them as I've been having to Bush for a while – immediately switching channels once their faces surface or the newscasters parrot the latest from their mouths. I now understand why Republicans hate them so bitterly, why the country became so polarized, and why the US ultimately put Bush with a stupid but honest image into office after Clinton’s administration. None of this had made sense to me before. As a party loyalist, I had just, well, tuned out and dismissed what my Republican friends said about the Clintons as just being partisan, but seeing their behavior now with open eyes and ears as just a candidate to be evaluated within my own party -- I must say I'm repulsed. I had no idea they were such slime. I remember the prayer group that Hillary had belonged to during Bill's cheating years, and the sympathy of course I felt, but I now wonder, was that an act, too? How can anyone with a shred of conscience behave the way that she and her husband are behaving? God save America.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
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