2012 is an important year in some calendars.

Why? In the Chinese calendar it is a Ren Chen year, isn't it?

In Louisiana, a unique coalition of blue collar whites and blacks elected Gov McKeithen to his second term in 1967-8 over a Klan backed candidate, and also elected Edwin Edwards governor multiple times. They had to deal with just these kinds of attacks. Personal contacts, and the fact that the Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan had tried to kill a number of whites, including reporters, opened the door for whites to begin to think about economics over racial solidarity. Now Louisiana had an earlier model of populism Huey P Long. So while North Louisiana was viulently racist and anti-Catholic, they also had to agree that the people screwing them over were from Standard Oil (then the dirty tricks king of the block- if you stood in the company's way bad things happened to you) and other comapnies, not the black people.

My point is that a relentless, well organized populist organization can overtake racism. Obama has to do what Clinton did: accept that populism and make it his own. Clinton didn't bow to populism until after Wisconsin. That's when she began to win. He needs to stop being measured on globalism and make populism the center of the campaign. Not that he knows their pain; force the media (as the View did) to contend with what he wants to do for rural America. His ideas can fit a populist model. He can use that well organized ground operation to bypass the media and get the message out.

This is not inevitable. There are historical models for overcoming the use of race to split poor whites from their pocketbooks. He needs to use them. He needs to study Long.

I am a white female living in one of those small towns in North Carolina,and I can tell you that most people are more worried about Obamas Radical Anti-America,Anti-Christian associations.There's just to many to list but I will a few::

Rev.Right,Father Pfleger,Louis Farrakhan,William Ayers,Jodie Evans,Medea Benjamin,Frank Marshall Davis,Otis Moss 111,Dr.Khalid-Al-Mansour,Hatem-EL-Hady,and then we wonder why Radical Muslim Countries keep endorsing Obama,this has never happened to an American running for President in our History.

Countries like,Lybia,North Korea,Iran,and Hamas. We have to ask ourselves WHY DO THESE PEOPLE WANT THIS MAN TO BE OUR PRESIDENT? These Countries are our Enemies.

Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor...

Yes and yes...

Palin is so far out of her league. She needed a city manager to run the city she was mayor of. How freaking more obvious does it have to be made for you rabid supporters?

She probably spent more time picking out office furnishings, deciding what books to ban and harassing her ex brother-in-law than she did actively running the city.

And now we find out that the retard she appointed to replace the target of her putsch started charging rape victims for their own 'rape kit' investigation kits. Nice 'family values' type a'guy... Probably the life of the party.

Gosh, could that spark a Dukakis moment question? But I guess to her church and her 'god', all raped women asked for it and therefore they deserve to pay the costs of that. Some state's kits go for over $1,200! Nice anti-feminist there, Sarah. Nice role model for women of the 21st century... Put 'em in burkas next? Maybe it's people like her that wolves would be hunting from helicopters...

He should go on the view and talk about the importance of family and the impact of poverty on the family, including the impact of rural poverty. He can talk while he is there about it is time that our nation acknowledged that families come in many forms and that many households are headed by women and that is why Pay Equity and the Lily Ledbetter Law is important.

They won't do to him what they did to John McCain.

You must inhale some strange drug.

So the choice is really between Muslim extremists and 'christian' extremists?

I've seen what the 'christian's' are capable of. I'm ready to give someone else a try.

At least the leaders won't be the super smug Dobson's and Robertson's and Cheney's and Wolfowitz's and Rove's and Rice's and Hadley's and Halliburton and BP and Bechtel and Boeing and Lilly and Lehman and Murdoch's and, and, and...

Like I've said before, McCain now is aping Obama's change motto. I guess that means that the Nazi's of Germany could have run with that too. They did bring 'change' to the world. Just think if they would have had better PR people...

America hasn't hit bottom. Not by a long shot. Voting for Palin/McCain could very well allow us to find out just how deep the hole goes...

I have 'hope' that Obama means what he says. I don't doubt that Palin/McCain will live down to the expectations of their rabid backers. More money for 'religion' and more money for more glorious crusades to spread 'democracy' around the world, like smearing the world's face in a pile of dog shit.

I live in a small town in the rustbelt of Ohio. If you ask people around here, nobody voted for Bush except those rich people. when the revolution eventually comes, which it will if poverty and unemployment keep going up and only poor kids are sent to fight the rich man's wars. well, when it comes, I'll guarantee that the blacks and poor whites wil fight side by side against the "haves" and "havemores" and that we'll fight dirty like the revolutionarys did-all that hiding behind trees and hanging tories stuff. We got strong enough rope for Rove and Limbaugh. It'll be fun cutting off those fat bellies. The young people don't care about race. It's a hip-hop world baby; even the Chinese youth like gangstah rap. Nearly every family now has mixed-race relatives and gay relatives. poor people are beginning to realize that the only hell the bad guys will suffer has to be on this earth; not in some fairytale world made yp thousands of years ago.