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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Thank you for bringing a sane and civil Clinton supporting voice to the dialogue. Race Bait Kate will find currency, yeah, but it's gonna be confederate dollars worth even less than America dollars. I agree that Obama needs to de-emphasize the campus aspect (which won't be hard, since the campuses will be dormant over the summer), and his appeal is far, far beyond that already. Even though pigeon holes like katie and shawnie want to brand every Obama supporter as a dupe, a coon, an elitist, or a misogynist, Obama has support throughout our extended, various, middle class family. One son in law is a Turk from Amsterdam, long since an American, who's an Oakland cop. the other is a union electrician, as blue collar and down to earth a guy as you can find. Obama. All four of our college graduate students, who could not be more dissimilar except in their genetic makeup, all agree Obama has, and is, something new. We do not dislike Hillary. Her campaign turns us off, and her brain dead apologists here make the gorge rise (not walker or phillips), so shove that up your demographic, katie.
Obama looks more like Bush buying socks in a super store more than Dukakis in a tank.
What would Pastor Wright say about this candid, honkie moment? :)
Ah, so the Clintons are now officially classified as Aryans? Thanks for the tip-off. Much appreciated.
I don't know what's going to happen in the primary, but the idea that McCain could carry Pennsylvania, or any other "blue" state for that matter is simply absurd. The fact is that McCain is getting a free ride up to this point because the press is distracted with Hillary Clinton as she looks though the Cliton Book of Dirty Tricks to find a way to win the nomination. Once Obama gets the nomination and can focus on McCain's deplorable record of enabling Bush at every turn there is no way we will have another Republican administration.
I see nothing in that story to suggest Obama won't "lock up the black vote" in PA. The piece was about the mayor's support of Clinton and no pole data was cited.
I think your conclusion, that he might have trouble locking up the black vote, is unfounded. unless there's some way of actually gauging the ability of this mayor to deliver black votes to one candidate or the other.
Ha ha hah!
To the tune of Eddie Walker :)
Won't you smile, you look so shocked
We all voted for Barack.
We've come to see ya,
LJ Walker.
And we may pack a little tight,
Your candidate says it's alright.
And look there's more of us still getting on the bus.
We wish you'd come back home with us.
LJ Walker, this is your life.
James Meeks – an Illinois state senator, pastor of one of the largest churches in the state and a declared Spiritual Adviser for Obama – came under fire for comments rebroadcast last week calling white American mayors "slave masters" and referring to black preachers and politicians who "protect" the "white man" as "house n-ggers."
"We don't have slave masters, we got mayors," Meeks said in an August 2006 sermon broadcast on a Chicago community television channel.
Aside from his senatorial duties, Meeks is an Illinois Superdelegate pledged to Obama and also presides over Salem Baptist Church, described as the largest church in Illinois.
In 2006, Meeks informed his church during a sermon he may run for Illinois governor. He was recorded telling the mostly black congregation any "white Christian" who doesn't vote for him is a "racist." Speaking from his pulpit Meeks said, “if I don't have every white Christian vote in the state of Illinois, I will stand on top of the Sears Tower and call every one of y'all racist."
Meeks is also notorious for his strong anti-homosexual platform, although Obama is campaigning for the "gay" vote. Meeks has routinely voted against pro-homosexual legislation and has been quoted during sermons referring to same-sex attraction "an evil sickness."
Obama told the Sun-Times that he is an attendee of Meeks' Salem Baptist Church for Wednesday night Bible Study.
According to Illinois State Board of Elections records, Rezko's businesses, Rezmar Corp. and Rezko Concession, contributed to Meeks' campaign funds.
A recent Meeks endorsement is touted on Obama’s campaign website.
James Meeks and his relationship with Obama was described in a 2004 Men's News Daily report during Obama's 2004 US Senate campaign:
Obama’s closest religious advisers -- Fr. (Michael) Pfleger, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, and Illinois State Sen. James Meeks, who moonlights as the pastor of Chicago's Salem Baptist Church – may have quotes from Scripture always handy, but are theologically closer to Karl Marx and black nationalism, than to Christianity.
wow, if you are for real, you sound like an ignorant xenophobic nut. Is this the people in the democratic party? jeeze.
anyway, goodmorning in jakarta, from an American Veteran and reservist who went to school in Java and is married to an Indonesian muslim woman.
Thanks for that link to the race card article. I have felt all along that everything the Clintons and their surrogates have said, most of which has been both benign and true, has been completely and intentionally distorted by Obama supporters, and then repeated ad nauseum until the distortion becomes commonly accepted fact among those who haven't been following events closely.
And, to those of you who are about to call me a racist Republican Clinton-shill hope-killer, you can bite me. I don't have to agree with lolcait's bizarre laundry list or be a Klanner to see the obvious, that Obama has been playing the race card to his benefit from the start.
Anyone who thinks this Ivy-educated, book-writing rich kid from the sunny suburbs of Hawaii, this guy who attended a church he must now distance himself from in order to be "black enough" for Chicago, this kid who was raised by his white mother and grandmother but nevertheless romanticizes his father to the tune of a spectacular book deal, is actually more interested in hope than he is in power is absolutely stupid. The Clintons are interested in power, but at least they're honest about it. Obama is so disappointing because he is just like everyone else, but lies about it.
If you want to see a man who could very well be in Obama's shoes right now, but has chosen to do some real, tangible good in the world instead, just look up Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, New Jersey. Here's a guy who not only has ideas about hope, but a track record of action and responsibility. It's clear from the way he lives his life that people like Obama have no idea what real change looks like or how to possibly bring it about.
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
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
