Thursday, January 31, 2008

Quote of the Day

i'll be honest, tho, if it comes down to mccain vs. hillary, i'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between the two, except one's got balls and the other's an old man.
- skippy

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

New Erykah Badu - Honey

Latest Super Tuesday Polls

Democratic Primaries

State

Date

Clinton

Obama

Alabama

01/25/08

43%

28%

California

01/17/08

38%

33%

Connecticut

01/29/08

40%

40%

Georgia

01/25/08

35%

41%

Missouri

01/25/08

43%

24%

New Jersey

01/17/08

45%

27%

New York

01/21/08

51%

30%

Obama vs. H. Clinton - Obama 1 Clinton 0


From Obama's speech today in Denver:

"Democrats will win in November and build a majority in Congress not by nominating a candidate who will unite the other party against us, but by choosing one who can unite this country around a movement for change," Obama said, speaking as rival John Edwards was pulling out of the race in New Orleans, leaving a Clinton-Obama fight for the Democratic nomination.


"It is time for new leadership that understands the way to win a debate with John McCain or any Republican who is nominated is not by nominating someone who agreed with him on voting for the war in Iraq or who agreed with him in voting to give George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran, who agrees with him in embracing the Bush-Cheney policy of not talking to leaders we don't like, who actually differed with him by arguing for exceptions for torture before changing positions when the politics of the moment changed," Obama said....

"I know it is tempting — after another presidency by a man named George Bush — to simply turn back the clock, and to build a bridge back to the 20th century," he said in Denver.

"... It's not enough to say you'll be ready from Day One — you have to be right from Day One," he added in unmistakable criticisms of Clinton, who often claims she's better prepared to govern, and her husband, who pledged during his own presidency to build a bridge to the 21st century.


Source


Ouch.

No more Mr. Nice Negro I see.

So whatcha got to say now Ms. Dowd?

The Clinton/Obama Non-Handshake Mega-Scandal

Maureen Dowd Called Obama a Bitch


From Ms. Dowd Today:

Even newly armored by the spirit of Camelot, Barack Obama is still distressed by the sight of a certain damsel.

It’s already famous as The Snub, the moment before the State of the Union when Obama turned away to talk to Claire McCaskill instead of trying to join Teddy Kennedy in shaking hands with Hillary.

it would have been the natural thing for the Illinois senator, only hours after his emotional embrace by the Kennedys and an arena full of deliriously shrieking students, to follow the lead of Uncle Teddy and greet the rebuffed Hillary.

She was impossible to miss in the sea of dark suits and Supreme Court dark robes. Like Scarlett O’Hara after a public humiliation, Hillary showed up at the gathering wearing a defiant shade of red.

But the fact that he didn’t do so shows that Obama cannot hide how much the Clintons rattle him, and that he is still taking the race very personally.

But now Obama is like that cat Mark Twain wrote about who wouldn’t jump on the stove again for fear of being burned.

It was only after the distortions of the Clintons in South Carolina that he changed his tone and took on Hillary in a tough way in the debate there. Afterward, one of his advisers said that it was as though a dam had broken and Obama finally began using all the sharp lines against Hillary that strategists had been suggesting for months.

Why had it taken so long for Obama to push back against Hillary? “He respected her as a senator,” the adviser replied. “He even defended her privately when she cried, saying that no one knows how hard these campaigns are.”

But Obama’s outrage makes him seem a little jejune. He is surely the only person in the country who was surprised when the Clintons teamed up to dissemble and smear when confronted with an impediment to their ambitions.

But Obama is the more emotionally delicate candidate, and the one who has the more feminine consensus management style, and the not-blinded-by-testosterone ability to object to a phony war.

As first lady, Alpha Hillary’s abrasive and secretive management of health care doomed it. She voted to enable W. on Iraq so she could run as someone tough enough to command armies.

Given her brazen quote to ABC News, Obama is right to be scared of Hillary. He just needs to learn that Uncle Teddy can’t fight all his fights, and that a little chivalry goes a long way.


Read the whole column here.

This chick done gone and lost her mind. She called Obama a Bitch. And accused him of being scared of Hilary and hiding behind Teddy's suit. WTF? And for a NON EVENT.

The Snub? You mean the non-moment between Obama and Clinton at the State of the Union? That's why you're calling him a Bitch and accusing him of being scared of a woman? And having to hide behind another man? Really? Really, Really?

You know as they said on Jack and Jill Politics, "I mean really, you can't be a black man in this country and talk like an intelligent person without some idiot emasculating you for it."

There's a reason why one of the quotes on my blog says, " Why are Black people so angry all the time? Probably some dumb shit you did, White girl."

Maureen Dowd just proved my point.

Now We're Down to Two


Well, by now you now the Edwards candidacy is no more. Now the question becomes who is he going to endorse if anyone?

First I'd like to say that I'm sad Edwards is out of the race. I think ultimately he helped bama but more importantly he was the only one really talking about poverty and America's "Two America's."

However I'm not that surprised that he didn't catch traction like so many would have liked. I mean he reeked of used car salesman and after all he was an ambulance chaser. And then there were these issues:

His campaign paid for two $400 dollar haircuts, an instant source of mockery from rivals and late night comics. Between his first and second presidential runs, Edwards took a consultant job with the hedge fund Fortress Investment Group, earning a salary of close to half a million dollars. While Edwards worked for the company, a subprime lending division of Fortress moved to foreclose on homes of Katrina victims.

Yeah. that doesn't always play so well with the po folk.

As far as the endorsement is concerned my personal opinion on this is either he endorses Obama or no one at all. I just don't think he has any credibility if he endorses Hillary the force of "status quo." But there is a lot of conflicting information surrounding an Edwards endorsement and his role in any future administration.

From ABC's The Note

Obama told ABC's Terry Moran on Tuesday that he asked Edwards to endorse him, in a private conversation.

"There is no doubt that I would love John's support, but I also respect the fact that he is in this contest," Obama said in a "Nightline" interview that aired Tuesday night, with Obama praising Edwards as a "formidable candidate."


However it was also reported (in the same article) that Edwards people had been trying to have a dialogue with Obama's folk but to no avail. They were effectively rebuffed. (funny it was also in ABC's The Note earlier but now I can't find the link. Hmmm...).

From Ramussen Reports - Attorney General Edwards?

Illinois Democrats close to Sen. Barack Obama are quietly passing the word that John Edwards will be named attorney general in an Obama administration.

Installation at the Justice Department of multimillionaire trial lawyer Edwards would please not only the union leaders supporting him for president but organized labor in general. The unions relish the prospect of an unequivocal labor partisan as the nation's top legal officer.


Edwards has stated unequivocally that he doesn't have any interest in being anyone's VP. But Attorney General? Eh. Who knows. I'm looking forward to the next fews days . They are sure to bring some fireworks.

Quote of the Day

Obama's not the savior: we are. He opens a door. We push.
- Laura Flanders

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Democratic Response to The State of the Union Address (as prepared for delivery)


I'm Kathleen Sebelius, Governor of the State of Kansas.

And I am grateful for the opportunity to speak with you tonight.

I'm a Democrat, but tonight, it really doesn't matter whether you think of yourself as a Democrat or a Republican or an Independent. Or none of the above.

Instead, the fact you're tuning in this evening tells me each of you is, above all, an American, first.

You are mothers, and fathers. Grandparents and grandchildren. Working people and business-owners. Americans, all.

And the American people - folks like you and me - are not nearly as divided as our rancorous politics might suggest.

In fact, right now, tonight, as political pundits discuss the President's speech - chances are, they'll obsess over the reactions of members of Congress.

"How many times was the President interrupted by applause? Did Republicans stand? Did Democrats sit?"

And the rest of us will roll our eyes and think, "What in the world does any of that have to do with me?"

And, so, I want to take a slight detour from tradition on this State of the Union night.

In this time, normally reserved for the partisan response, I hope to offer you something more:

An American Response.

A national call to action on behalf of the struggling families in the heartland, and across this great country. A wakeup call to Washington, on behalf of a new American majority, that time is running out on our opportunities to meet our challenges and solve our problems.

Our struggling economy requires urgent and immediate action, and then sustained attention. Families can't pay their bills. They are losing their jobs, and now are threatened with losing their homes.

We heard last week and again tonight that Congress and the President are acting quickly, on a temporary, targeted stimulus package. That is encouraging. But you and I know that a temporary fix is only the first step toward meeting our challenges and solving our problems.

There is a chance, Mr. President, in the next 357 days, to get real results, and give the American people renewed optimism that their challenges are the top priority. Working together, working hard, committing to results, we can get the job done.

In fact, over the last year, the Democratic majority in Congress has begun to move us in the right direction - with bipartisan action to strengthen our national security, raise the minimum wage, and reduce the costs of college loans.

These are encouraging first steps. But there is still more to be done.

And, so we ask you, Mr. President - will you join us? Let's get to work.

We know that we are stronger as a nation when our people have access to the highest-quality, most-affordable health care. When our businesses can compete in the global marketplace without the burden of rising health care costs here at home.

We know that caring for our children, so they have a healthy and better start in life, is what grownups do. Governors in both parties, and a large majority of the Congress are ready, right now, to provide health care to 10 million American children, as a first step in overhauling our health care system.

Join us, Mr. President, sign the bill and let's get to work.

Sitting with the First Lady tonight was Steve Hewitt, the city manager of Greensburg, Kansas. Many of you remember Greensburg - our town nearly destroyed by a tornado last year.

Thanks to Steve's efforts, and hundreds of others in our state, and across the country, Greensburg will recover. Folks rolled up their sleeves and got to work, and local, state and federal governments assisted in the effort.

But more than just recover - the Kansans who live in Greensburg are building green - rebuilding a better community for their children and grandchildren; making shared sacrifices, and investments for the next generation.

Greensburg is not alone. You and I - stand ready - ready to protect our environment for future generations, and stay economically competitive. Mayors have committed their cities to going green; governors have joined together, leading efforts for energy security and independence; and the majority in Congress is ready to tackle the challenge of reducing global warming and creating a new energy future for America.

So we ask you, Mr. President, will you join us? It's time to get to work.

Here in the heartland, we honor and respect military service. We appreciate the enormous sacrifices made by soldiers and their families.

As Governor of Kansas, I am the Commander in Chief of our National Guard. Over the past five years, I have seen thousands of soldiers deployed from Kansas. I've visited our troops in Iraq; attended funerals and comforted families; and seen the impact at home of the war being waged.

We stand ready in the heartland and across this country, to join forces with peace-loving nations across the globe and to fight the war against terrorists, wherever they may strike. But our capable and dedicated soldiers can't solve the political disputes where they are, and can't focus on the real enemies elsewhere.

The new Democratic majority of Congress and the vast majority of Americans are ready - ready to chart a new course. If more Republicans in Congress stand with us this year, we won't have to wait for a new President to restore America's role in the world, and fight a more effective war on terror.

The last five years have cost us dearly - in lives lost; in thousands of wounded warriors whose futures may never be the same; in challenges not met here at home because our resources were committed elsewhere. America's foreign policy has left us with fewer allies and more enemies.

Join us, Mr. President, and working together with Congress to make tough, smart decisions, we will regain our standing in the world and protect our people and our interests.

I know government can work to benefit the people we serve, because I see it every day, not only here in Kansas, but in states across the country. I know government can work, Mr. President, because like you, I grew up in a family committed to public service. My father and my father-in-law both served in Congress - one a Republican and one a Democrat. They had far more in common than the issues that divided them - a love for their country that led them from military service to public service. A lifetime of working for the common good, making sacrifices so their children and grandchildren could have a better future.

They are called "the greatest generation." But I believe, like parents across America, that our greatest generations are still to come. That we must chart a new course, at home and abroad, to give our future greatest generations all the opportunities our parents gave us.

These are uncertain times, but with strength and determination, we can meet the challenges together. If Washington can work together, so quickly, on a short-term fix for families caught in the financial squeeze, then we can work together to transform America.

In these difficult times - the American people aren't afraid to face difficult choices.

But, we have no more patience for divisive politics.

Tonight's address begins the final year of this presidency, with new leaders on the horizon and uncertainty throughout our land. Conditions we face, at home and abroad, are results of choices made and challenges unmet.

In spite of the attempts to convince us that we are divided as a people, a new American majority has come together. We are tired of leaders who rather than asking what we can do for our country, ask nothing of us at all.

We are Americans sharing a belief in something greater than ourselves, a nation coming together to meet challenges and find solutions; to share sacrifices and share prosperity; and focus, once again, not only on the individual good but on the common good.

On behalf of the new American majority - the majority of elected officials at the national, state and local level, and the majority of Americans - we ask you, Mr. President, to join us. We are ready to work together, to be the America we have been - and can be once again.

Thank you for listening. God bless and sleep well. And in the morning, let's get to work.

Ted Kennedy's Endorsement Speech

Monday, January 28, 2008

Quote of the Day

You are generally well-liked.


So please stop campaigning...

1...for your third term.
2...for a proper second term to make up for the one the GOP stole from you.
3...to show em! To show 'em all!

You're spoiling it for everyone else.

Kindly sit the fuck down, shut the fuck up, quit getting drunk on someone else's cork, and let the Junior Senator from the great state of New York run on her own dime.

That is all.
- Driftglass

Funny Comment of the Day

What are the Clintons doing now?

1. Hillary is fussing at Clinton. "After Monica, you promised me the White House."

The Lying Adulteress Quits


Christine Beatty, Mayor Kilpatrick's paramour quit today:

In a letter to Kilpatrick that was released by his office, Beatty said she believes she can no longer effectively carry out her duties. Her resignation takes effect Feb. 8.

"I painfully regret the devastation that the recent reports have caused to the citizens of Detroit, to my co workers, to the Mayor's family and to my family and friends," Beatty wrote in the letter.

Kilpatrick spokesman James Canning said the mayor's office had no comment.



I wonder if she thought she couldn't "effectively carry out her duties," when she was having all those clandestine rendezvous with Kilpatrick?

Or maybe those were her duties.

No word on Kilpatrick's resignation yet.


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Did You Hear That? That was the Sound of Ted Kennedy Bitch Slapping the Clintons


Wow.

Just Wow.

Kennedy didn't just endorse Obama he basically called the Clintons a bunch of out of touch liars.

And that ain't hyperbole speaking.

More later. I got class.

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Obama's VIctory Speech

Quote of the Day

Jackson won South Carolina twice, in '84 and '88. And he ran a good campaign. Senator Obama's run a good campaign here, he’s run a good campaign everywhere.
- Bill Clinton

Saturday, January 26, 2008

South Carolina Primary Results


Looks like Hillary is going to get second. I'm going to call it night and wil be back with some analysis tomorrow.


I'm going to stick around for second. Edwards may get second and that would be Oh So Good.


Well damn...

They're projecting Barack Obama winning the South Car0lina primary.

They haven't even counted a vote yet. Just based on exit polls.

Talk about premature ejac...well you get it.


Here we go....

)% Precincts Reporting
Hillary Clinton
Barack Obama
John Edwards

Live Blogging South Carolina Results Tonight Starting at 7pm

Quote of the Day

They came home to Barack like they came home to OJ.
- Bill Maher on Obama's rise in the polls with Black people

Wahington Post Article on Why Black Folks Love Affair With Clinton is Nearing it's End


Black America Feels the Sting of Ex-President's Comments

By Darryl Fears
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 25, 2008; A08

For nearly two decades, Yvette Wider, an African American, adored Bill Clinton, once described by a famous black novelist as the nation's first black president.

But now, after Clinton's "fairy tale" remark about Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in New Hampshire and a statement in South Carolina that Obama had put a political "hit job" on him, Wider said she feels she hardly knows the former president. "I was surprised to hear him make a comment like that, because I thought he understood our people better," said Wider, who said she will vote for Obama in Saturday's South Carolina primary. "It made me think he's been playing us all this time."

Wider's sentiments are echoing across black America -- on blogs, Web chats and talk radio, where Clinton is being attacked as never before.

It is a significant turnabout for Clinton, who throughout most of his presidency counted black people as his staunchest supporters. Less than eight years ago, African Americans gave the former president a stratospherically favorable rating -- higher than those for Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

With his attacks on Obama, however, that appears to be changing, causing some strategists and observers to wonder whether Clinton's behavior will alienate black voters whom his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), will need should she win the nomination.

"The tone of some of the things he said just crossed a line," said David Bositis, chief researcher for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a black think tank. A 2000 survey by Bositis showed that 91 percent of African American respondents had a favorable view of Clinton. Bositis said he doubts that the number would be as high if the survey were conducted today.

n a South Carolina attack ad, the Clinton campaign used part of an Obama quote to suggest that he supported Reagan administration policies as economically sound. But Obama criticized the policies as hurtful later in the statement.

"I never said anything disparaging about him or the reality of his campaign," Clinton said about the fairy tale remark. "It's a brilliant campaign, and this is an example of how brilliant it is. It rests on a false premise. I wasn't trying to be sneering or derisive. I was trying to think of a kinder characterization of his argument."

John Stevenson, a former school superintendent in South Carolina, said the remark upset him but not terribly. "I'm very impressed with Senator Clinton," he said. "I think Bill did an awful lot as president."

"People say a lot of things when they're embroiled in battle, and often they wish those things hadn't been said," Stevenson said. "I think I wish he hadn't said it."

Others are not as forgiving.

Anthony Peppers, a buyer for a manufacturing firm who lives in South Carolina, said Hillary Clinton's reputation among black voters will suffer for her husband's outbursts.

"I'm offended, because I thought she would not have dipped to this level," Peppers said. "You think she didn't agree for him to do that? If you have someone that close to you saying that, then it's her. She's got to live with it."

Wider's views were even sharper. "He can identify with us as much as he wants, but unless you're black, you don't know as much about it," she said. "I guess he's part of the old-boy system, too."

Clinton attempted damage control while appearing on Sharpton's radio show. "I think he clearly was hurt by it," Sharpton said of the criticism. "I think part of his legacy is having a good relation ship with African Americans, and he didn't want to go down in history as having broken that relationship."

Tom Joyner, whose syndicated radio show is among the most popular on black radio stations, recently released a statement criticizing Clinton after an appearance by the former president. "When he spoke this morning, some people thought he was saying, I've done so much for black people, how dare you question me?" Joyner said.

Even with the criticism of Clinton, however, some in the black community believe that it will make little difference. Black voters will overwhelming support the Democratic nominee, no matter who it is, they say.

"I don't think the Clintons are the enemy to most black people," said Melissa Harris-Lacewell, an associate professor of politics and African American studies at Princeton University. "If Hillary succeeds, black people are going to vote for her. They might not be excited."


Yeah. We'll see about that.

Those in Glass Houses....

This is Rezko. The Slumlord Hillary has been bashing Obama with.


This is her denying that she ever knew this man when confronted with the picture on the Today Show by Matt Lauer.




This is me laughing my ass off.

Friday, January 25, 2008

Quote of the Day

With all the talk about how to stimulate it, you’d think that the economy is a giant clitoris.
- Barbara Ehrenreich

When Niggaz Act a Fool and Get Caught. Yes I said Niggaz.

Nigga #1 - Kwame Kilpatrick



Mayor Caught Exchanging Steamy Texts With Chief of Staff

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick exchanged romantic - and often salacious - text messages with a top aide, contradicting earlier denials made under oath
court that they had romantic ties.

Christine Beatty, the Mayor's Chief of Staff was married at the time of the texts. Mayor

Kilpatrick is still married.

Here are some of the texts:

"I'm madly in love with you," Kilpatrick wrote on Oct. 3, 2002.

"I hope you feel that way for a long time," Beatty replied. "In case you haven't noticed, I am madly in love with you, too!"

On Oct. 16, 2002, Kilpatrick wrote Beatty: "I've been dreaming all day about having you all to myself for 3 days. Relaxing, laughing, talking, sleeping and making love."

His response:

These five- and six-year-old text messages reflect a very difficult period in my personal life. It is profoundly embarrassing to have these extremely private messages now displayed in such a public manner.My wife and I worked our way through these intensely personal issues years ago. I would now ask that the public and the media respect the privacy of my wife and children and of Christine Beatty and her children at this deeply painful moment for our families.


SIgh.

As someone posted on another blog...that's what you get when you elect Suge Knight as mayor.


Nigga #2 - Lil' Wayne


Wayne is also receiving the Dumbest Negro Alive Award.


Rapper Lil Wayne arrested for drug possession

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Rapper Lil Wayne was arrested for felony drug possession early on

Wednesday when his charter bus was stopped at a California-Arizona border checkpoint, authorities said.

Lil Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., was arrested in southwestern Arizona on suspicion of possessing cocaine and ecstasy, as well as drug paraphernalia, authorities said. He was being held in Yuma County Jail on a $10,185 bond.

The bus, with 12 people on board, had been traveling east from California.


A further inspection found 105 grams (3.7 ounces) of marijuana, 29 grams (1 ounce) of cocaine, 41 grams (1.45 ounces) of ecstasy and more than $22,000, agents said.

Also recovered was a .40 caliber pistol registered to Carter in Florida and authorities were checking to determine whether he broke any gun laws, said Ramona Sanchez, a Drug Enforcement Administration spokeswoman in Phoenix.


Calling celebrity rehab...

This fool was riding around with a damn illicit pharmacy on his damn tour bus. And didn't this nigga see what happened to T.I.?

Whether the FBI/DEA are checking for rappers their dumb asses are doing dumb shit to get caught.

WTF?

Barack Obama: Why White Folk Just Don't Get It


Two articles. Two White men. Two folk who just don't get it.

Ready Aim Fire

The End of the Obama Revolution

Now before you keep reading this post you need to read those articles.

No I'm serious.

- (me doing a jig while you read) -

Alright. The first piece is a problem for two reasons

1. It doesn't fully call Clinton on his racist bullshit. He refers to their tactics as their "war room." As if their attacks are completely above board and par for the course. He does admit that their attacks have the potential to alienaate specific groups (Blacks and youth) that could cost her in the genral election.

2. He expects Obama to "rise above the fray." Yeah. About that rising above the fray. How'd that work for Kerry? And Obama is in an even more precarious position because of his color.

The Clintons are trying to turn him into the Black guy who is running fro president and if Obama doesn't fight back then he gets tarnished with the Black brush and voters will start to wonder if what the Clintons are saying is true since he didn't take the time to defend himself.

Swiftboating anyone?

The second article is a problem becomes it asumes that only the Hispanic voting bloc is racist:

Among Hispanics, who in some states make up a larger contingent of voters than African-Americans, Obama has encountered strident resistance. Sergio Bendixen, a pollster working with the Clinton campaign, recently told the New Yorker: "The Hispanic voter -- and I want to say this very carefully -- has not shown a lot of willingness or affinity to support black candidates." Based on this logic, an Obama victory in South Carolina, where every second Democratic voter is black, would be more than offset by an Obama defeat in California, a much larger state that is dominated by whites and Hispanics. Staffers within the Clinton campaign are referring to the Hispanics as their firewall.

What he doesn't note when referring to other groups that he says aren't warming to Obama, women, blue collar workers and older people there is a race component as well. Obama has been polling well among blacks in most of those demographics (those without a high school diploma notwithstanding). So the idea that he's on the outs with ALL of these groups is misleading. It's mainly White people in these demographics he's not polling well against.

So making Hispanics (who are also White) the racist bogeyman is telling and misleading. The article reads as if Hilary has tapped into these groups and race (or gender) isn't a factor at all in making the decision on who to vote for. Coming away from this article you'd think Blacks voted strictly because Obama's Black. Hispanics vote for Hilary because Obama's Black. And everyone else (including women) vote Hillary based on the issues.

Like I said. They just don't get it.

The Shit Has Hit The Economic Fan Part 2: They Got a Stimulus Package


So they managed to come to an agreement and settled on a $150 billion stumulus package that will help those making less then $75,000 and couples making $150,000. Democrats managed to make sure that people who pay little taxes will get a check since that wasn't in the first package the Bushies proposed.

Checks will range form $300 - $1200 and an extra $300 per child with a cap set at $1200 dollars. There are also a lot of big tax breaks for businesses. Checks are expected to start going out in May since the IRS is already going to be slammed for tax season.

What do I think about the "economic stimulus" package?

I think the shit is hitting the economic fan. And the best thing folk can do for themselves is prepare for a really bad recession/depression. The good times are OVER. It's gonna get ugly in the next year or so. "Cause like I said in the previus post on this topic: governments to go giving away free money when the economy is okay. A Republican administration no less.

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Thursday, January 24, 2008

It's My Birthday

Blogsphere Arrogance and the my "Unconventinal Views"


It never ceases to amaze me the level of arrogance on some folks blogs. Mind you I don't mind. I can a bit arrogant myself. By nature I'm argumentative (not as much as I used to be) but it seems like my level of arrogance doesn't go over quite well.

I don't mind folk disagreeing with me. As a matter of fact I expect it. There is a reason why my blog is titled "an unconventional look at issues affecting black women."

BUT under NO circumstance will I allow anyone to talk shit to me and get a free pass. If it means I"m not "likable" well so be it. Not an issue for me. "Likable" in that context simply means "know your place" and "take my shit" and keep it steppin'.

I think I'll pass.

As far as some of my "unconventional" views:

1. I don't believe Hip-Hop is the problem. It's the result of the "problem" namely the moving of the sex industry from the fringes of society to the mainstream. You get get rid of all the nasty music and videos tomorrow and you'd still have the negative representation on women (Black women) in the media.

2. Fathers aren't that important. Yeah I said it. Women (married or not) do the heavy lifting where child rearing is concerned. Men are important in the sense that we live in a patriarchal society and they make more money and are great at being breadwinners and what not. We don't socialize men to be hands on parents and as result they don't tend to be.

3. No, kids aren't necessarily going to grow up and have "daddy issues" or need counseling cause daddy wasn't around. They might if mommy isn't around though.

4. Women can't have it all. Not at the same time at least. Stop trying. It doesn't work.

5. Women can have unattached, loveless sex with the same ease as men.

6. Black people in this country aren't doing well. As a a matter fact we're moving backward. Something has got to be done about it. Don't believe me read the Pew Research Center survey.

7. God does not want you to be single. Anyone who tells you that is a lie.

8. If Black folks would start holding White folk accountable for the way we're portrayed in the media in the same manner that we try to hold Black folk accountable we might actually get somewhere.

9. The Black Community is dead and buried.

10. White is NOT right. And Lord knows I wish more Black folk would recognize and understand this.

11. If I hear one more Black person say "I'm surviving" or "God wouldn't put more on me then I could bear," I'm going to SCREAM. Stop using God as a crutch. He helps those who helps themselves. You aren't poor, single, childless, etc. because God wants you to be.

12. People aren't poor because of a "poverty mentality" or lack of "personal responsibility." Many people are poor because of entrenched institutionalized poverty and racism.

13. You can do everything right and still not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of.

14. Feminist isn't a dirty word (though it is a complicated one).

15. Women can raise boys just fine. They've been raising them for them centuries. I'm confused why, only now, the idea is that it can't be done.

16. I don't have much respect for Black conservatives (Republicans). I think black conservatives have got to be some of the most self hating/loathing group of people around.

17. Being gay is not a choice. You're born that way. Black folk need to stop worrying about who folk are sleeping with and mind their own damn business.

18. Being a "Strong Black Woman" is dangerous and deadly. A title used to get Black women to take on more then they can bear and not take care of their needs first. If you believe you're an SBW you need to tell that bitch to begone. Say, "Bitch. Begone." It ain't good for you and causes you to miss out on a lot.

19. For feminism (or whatever you want to call it) to work you have to accept your saints and your whores. To do otherwise is to buy into a patriarchal belief of a good girl vs. bad girl dichotomy and that doesn't do women any good.

20. Karrine Steffans, Melyssa Ford, Buffy the Body, etc. aren't an issue for me. I say do your thang ladies.

21. Kobe Bryant raped that girl.

22. Women hate each other more than men ever will.

23. Some of the "Something New" folks just want to be with White men. Just say that and stop bashing brothers. Embrace your White fantasies but you don't have to hate on brothers in the process.

24. Black women need to wake the hell up and realize that your IBM (Ideal Black Man) may not exist. Find happiness where you can. And stop apologizing for it.

25. Black men need to start holding other Black men accountable for their behaviors. It's not just "boys being boys" or "men being men." If men would speak up regarding the blatant disrespect targeting at Black women we might actually get somewhere.

26. More women need to have abortions instead of having babies. Don't get pregnant to begin with but if you do some of ya'll need to abort. Babies aren't lessons to be learned or punishments for bad behaviour. And "Thou shall not have an abortion," is no where in the bible. Aborting is better then bringing a baby into the world that you don't want or can't take care of.


So there you have it. Some of my "unconventional" views. You don't have to like them. You can vehemently disagree with me on them. I welcome the debate. But the moment you cross the line and turn it into a personal attack...well you can read LH's blog to see how well that goes...

Quote of the Day

We'd rather die on our feet
Than be livin' on our knees
- James Brown

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Obama's First National Ad

What do you think?

Why do White People Try to be "Hip"

Quote of the Day

If you send the same people back to Washington just to sit in different chairs nothing will happen.
- Mitt Romney

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

A Commenter Nails It When Describing the Russian Roulette the Clintons are Playing With the Black Vote and Ultimately The Democratic Party


From Group News Blog in reply to comments being made by myself and others that because of the Clinton's antics HRC will NOT be getting our votes:

I agree with JJ and moonglum on the not voting for Hillary issue.

People need to understand the seriousness of this.


It's not that black folks don't care about the Supreme Court or progressive programs but you have to understand for many blacks what the Bill Clinton has done (and yes I say Bill because this fight is more about him than Hillary IMHO and you know damn well he is behind every single nasty remark that has come out) is a betrayal first as a friend and second as a fellow Democrat.


Many of us considered the Clintons family, not me personally but I have family members and friends who loved him. Not agreed with him. Not liked his policy programs but loved the president because culturally and socially he was the first president that was close to us.

As Mrs Robinson wrote downthread, a charming smart guy who grew up poor in Arkansas raised by a single mother, tormented by a drunken father who overcomes the odds to make his way North for a better life is resembles to many of the stories of our own families. (Especially older relatives who were part of that migration of blacks from the south so many years before) We related to Bill in a way we never could to people like JFK and RFK because they were the product of rich families.

He might not have had the same skin color but superficially he was about as close as he could get. And for black folks who saw Jesse run and fail and had their hopes dashed then and assumed that they would never have anyone remotely close to them with a real sniff at the Whitehouse, Bill Clinton was a great substitute for the real thing.

The other endearing thing was he was a Democrat who many other Dems of his generation fought for our civil rights. Hell he even had a picture of is teenage self shaking JFK's hand! And maybe after years of Reagan and Bush we would have someone we could trust to continue that legacy.

Bill Clinton wasn't just a president he was family.

So we voted for him, vociferously defended him while many whites Dems were breaking ranks voting for the GOP and impeaching him not only in Congress but in the court of public opinion. And because Bill was family we also willfully ignored how he didn't deliver for us as he said he would. We stayed true to him through everything. We never even thought of straying from the party and it's ideals the way some many others had since 1980.

So to sit here and see staffers, surrogates, and Bill rip apart a black man using pages from the GOP playbook is about the worst thing politically many of us have seen not because we haven't seen it before but the source is a person that we gave unconditional trust to.

To see fellow Dems make excuses for the behavior is shocking to the system too. Read sites like Dailykos and see the real shucking and jiving some folks are doing to not only defend this crap but turn it around and say blacks in the party need to STFU. I never thought in my life I would hear the uppity nigger STFU line by another Dem. NEVER.

So yes we are pissed and we are going to stay pissed because the candidates, Howard Dean and many people in the party don't seem to give a shit.

So tell me what are my real choices? What choice to do we have but to stay home and not vote or do something more drastic like leave the party all together if Hillary wins the nomination when no one will take our concerns seriously or they pull out some argument about Supreme Court nominations changing the subject entirely?

Now I know some will think I am politically naive but what people outside the black community do not seem to understand is the first and I would argue largest reason we don't vote for the GOP is the GOP's racism. Not it's policy but simply the sickening way they choose to treat us.

I know I'm going to shock some folks here but us blacks no matter how much we like to say we are different than whites in many ways aren't. We've got homophobic religious evangelical fanatics too (thus Obama's speech on MLK day about homophobia in our community). We've got rich money grubbing assholes too (see Robert Johnson). We've got opportunistic bastards running our churches who are influential in our community who would endorse Satan in a political campaign if they thought it would get them money and political power (see all the pastors in 2004 who couldn't get on their knees fast enough to suck up to Bush).

We've got all the political diseases whites have and they are largely masked by the fact that the GOP's racism is so repellant that all these groups are FORCED to stick together for our own survival.

And the danger that LM didn't touch upon too much is what happens when that line of racial hatred between the Democrats and the GOP becomes blurred. Forget folks staying at home over Hillary on election day. Think of the total destruction of the Democratic party as blacks leave to vote for the GOP.

And yeah I know the first response to that is "The won't do that they'll be voting against they're own interest." So what? White folks have been doing that for nearly 30 years now. Like I said we aren't all that different from whites and some of are are craven and stupid enough to do it.

And yes it will be total destruction because blacks ARE the Democratic party. We ARE the left in this country. We ARE the stability of the party and have been for a long time.

And you Dems need us. To be more precise you need that 90% of our votes that we've given you in election after election.

Remember Rove's permanent majority? Part of the strategy was peeling off black votes. Just maybe 10-15 % and the Dems would never win another election again.

Think about that. Think about that as Clinton and his bullies keep pissing us off and giving younger blacks like me more and more reasons to say fuck it and stay home in Nov or do worse.

The Clintons are playing a game of racial Russian roulette. And they will keep pulling the trigger over and over again. And they don't worry about being shot because the gun isn't pointing at them but all of us.

Are you going to take a bullet for them?
My mom's thinking about voting for McCain if he gets the nomination as are some of my other relatives and friends.

I have others who are just demoralized and ready not to vote for anybody.

I know my post was really long but the short of it is that if the Dems through their own infighting and failure to address the issues surrounding may be pushing some of us in the direction of the GOP or not participate at all.

And as for numbers? I'm not Latino so please someone correct me if I'm wrong but IIRC Latinos in this country have spread their vote out between the two parties with the Dems with a slight majority.

Despite the rhetoric of both parties we've had tight political races.

If the Dems need 90% of the black vote to win (or lose) by a squeeker what happens if that vote is 75 or 80% which it very well could be if Hillary wins the nomination?

Are you assuming Latinos are going to vote in those kind of numbers? They haven't so far as far as I've seen and they may not in the future.

Look, I'm not going to pretend to be a expert on Latino politics or where they stand between the GOP and the Democrats but all things staying equal the Democratic party will be fucked if blacks stop giving them their votes whether we are the largest minority or not.
It's not about ALL of us saying "We're taking our ball and going home" but enough of us to really screw things up. That's the danger I'm talking about that noone seems to understand or dismisses as being unreal.

And as for the DTV analogy, I'll give you one of my own.

I have a friend who has digital cable. He got it while they were advertising one of those specials where you pay a low rate for a few months before they jack it up to a much higher one.

Everytime he gets close to the end of that low rate they give him a call about extending his service he gives them some spiel (sp?) about how a satellite dish looks good and he saw a lower rate somewhere else and you know what? They keep him at his low rate.

Why? Because of competition. Because even in cold-hearted businessmen know that even at a lower rate it's better for them to get your money than have it go somewhere else.

The Democratic infighting may produce a competition for black votes for the first time in forever.

Do Democrats know that it's better to keep blacks rather than ignoring us and giving us reasons to leave?

I don't think anyone wants that.

Is Hillary Clinton Leaving South Carolina to Slick Willie?


In S. Carolina, it’s Obama vs. (Bill) Clinton
Sen. Clinton deploys husband as she shifts her attention to other states

Facing formidable support for Senator Barack Obama in South Carolina, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is deploying former President Bill Clinton there while she shifts her attention to campaigning in states with nominating contests next month and to raising money.

The strategic shift intensifies a new dynamic in the race: Mrs. Clinton’s campaign this week in South Carolina is essentially running Mr. Clinton against Mr. Obama. The two have been engaged in a war of words, with Mr. Clinton accusing the Obama campaign of voter coercion in the Nevada caucuses, and Mr. Obama saying on Monday that Mr. Clinton had made comments that were “not factually accurate” and that his advocacy for his wife had grown “pretty troubling.”

Mrs. Clinton’s advisers cautioned that she was not writing off South Carolina, which has a Democratic primary on Saturday. It is the last place where Democrats will compete before Feb. 5, when more than 20 states hold nominating contests. Continue Reading


Unlike New Hampshire Clinton isn't so sure she can make up the difference in the polls since roughly 50% of the primary voters are Black. Because there are so many Black folks involved in the primary contest the Bradley Effect may not be in play and the polls may actually represent the likely outcome of the race (currently polls have Obama with a 10 point lead). Maybe.

So while simultaneously lowering expections she dispenses Slick Willie to do her campaigning for her in hopes Black folk will think Bill is running for president again, not his wife. Well I won't say it's a bad move and I can understand with 83% of of Black folks going for Obama in Nevada and her equally dismal showing with Negroes in Michigan she might be concerned.

So we'll see what the Black folk of South Carolina do. And let me tell you how incredibly happy I would be if Black South Carolinians handed the Clintons their hat and frog marched their asses out of the state.

Obama Grows a Pair

So someone decided to stop being Mr. Nice Guy. That's nice. And I understand the tightrope he's walking. He doesn't want to be the Angry Black Man beating up on the Defenseless White Woman. "Tis a problem. Brothers have been lynched for less. But at some point he was going to have to get dirty because Mr. and Mrs. Slick Willie have no intention of letting up.

Obama's Speech at King's Church

Monday, January 21, 2008

Thursday, January 17, 2008

In Case You Didn't Realize it the Shit has Hit the Economic Fan

This today from MSNBC:

Bush, Bernanke endorse economic stimulus

WASHINGTON - President Bush and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday embraced calls for an economic stimulus package to avert recession. Bernanke said such a plan should be aimed at quickly getting cash into the hands of people, especially those with low and moderate incomes.

The Fed chief, in testimony to the House Budget Committee, said efforts that involve “putting money into the hands of households and firms that would spend it in the near term” would be more effective than other provisions, such as making Bush’s tax cut permanent. “Again, I’m not taking a view one way or the other on the desirability of those long-term tax cuts being made permanent,” he said.

While shying away from endorsing a specific plan, Bernanke made clear his support for the general concept of an economic rescue package and that it be temporary so that it won’t complicate longer-term fiscal challenges. It is likely that any such package would include tax rebates.

“We stand ready to take substantive additional action as needed to support growth and to provide adequate insurance against downside risks,” Bernanke told the budget panel Thursday, echoing the same — and unusually frank — language he used last week to signal the Fed’s next move.

Although Republicans and Democrats differ over what provisions should be part of any economic stimulus package, there’s widespread agreement that tax rebates along the lines of the $300-$600 checks provided in 2001 are likely to be part of the measure. The country last suffered a recession in 2001.

“To be useful, a fiscal stimulus package should be implemented quickly and structured so that its effects on aggregate spending are felt as much as possible within the next 12 months or so,” Bernanke told lawmakers. The notion behind the rebates, for instance, is to get money into the hands of consumers quickly so that they boost spending, helping energize the national economy.


Now. I'm no economist. But I do understand a few things. And from what I understand if you have a republican administration talking about giving money back to, "people, especially those with low and moderate incomes." then the economy is in bad shape.

70% of our GDP is based on spending. Our spending. So if we stop spending the economy contracts. As the article mentions it's important to make sure whatever "stimulus" is done that it targets lower income people 'cause, unlike the rich who only spend part of their reimbursements, poor folk spend all of theirs.

Mind you all of this is being done to help "prevent" a recession.

Newsflash: if you are waiting for the MSM to tell you there is a recession then you must be one of those people who bought a house at the top of the market in 2006 because you just "knew" you were getting a great deal and would be able to flip it the next week. Housing bubble? What housing bubble?

These are bad times. And they are only going to get worse. NOW is the time to get your financial house in order. Downsize your life. Generate extra income. Now is the time.

Don't wait for the MSM to tell you what you can easily see for yourself.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Rove Talks Shit About Hillary's Michigan Primary Win - Oh it Just Keeps Getting Better and Better

Update: Slick Willie Rips Casino Caucuses


Oh. So Slick Willie defends the lawsuit against the casino caucuses? Hmm. No one seemed to have a problem back in May when the decision was made. From abc News:

ABC News' Teddy Davis and Sarah Amos Report: While campaigning in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, former President Bill Clinton defended a lawsuit challenging the Nevada Democratic Party's decision to permit casino workers to join presidential caucuses at their workplaces, even as he denied that he or his wife's campaign had anything to do with the litigation.

"Do you really believe that all the Democrats understood that they had agreed to give everybody who voted in a casino a vote worth five times as much as people who voted in their own precinct? Did you know that?" Clinton said in a testy exchange with Mark Matthews of KGO, ABC's affiliate in San Francisco. "What happened is nobody understood what had happened. ... Now, everybody's saying, 'Oh they don't want us to vote.' What they really tried to do was to set up a deal where their votes counted five times, maybe even more."

If turnout were incredibly low in the casino caucuses and incredibly high in the regular precinct caucuses, Clinton would be right in warning that votes cast in the at-large casino caucuses could be worth "five times, maybe even more" than votes cast at regular precinct caucuses, according to Bill Buck, a consultant to the Nevada Democratic Party.

Clinton is being disingenuous, however, when he makes it sound as if this feature of the Nevada caucuses was only recently discovered. It's been known for months.

What has changed is knowledge that the Culinary Workers, the union which represents the casino workers, is backing Barack Obama.


Awww. Slick Willie is upset because wifey poo didn't get the endorsement that was rightfully hers. So instead of being a man about it he's whining and pouting and having a flat out temper tantrum,

"Waaaaa. Waaaa. It's not Faaaiiirrrrrr. We didn't know. We didn't know. If my wifey poo can't benefit neither can that Obama. Waaaa. Waaaaaa."

(Stamps feet. Sticks thumb in mouth)

Oh these Clintons will stop at nothing.

How's you feeling about your first Black president now?

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Enough is Definitely ENOUGH


Enough is really Enough

I always wonder if the people that jump on bandwagons even care if they know where the bandwagon is going…..or if its just the really cool music….or is it just the self-gratification of being a part of "something"….doesn’t matter what that "something" actually is. Hence, my hesitation at the Enough is Enough campaign against apparently, all things BET: Black Entertainment Television…or Black Exploitation Television…or Bitches Entertaining Thugs or Boogeymen Endangering Teens or whatever the cause du jour has bestowed upon the B-E-T.

Enough is Enough is a group led by Rev. Damien Coates that has waged a war against……against………..ummm…..against….well, take a look at their goals for yourself: http://www.enoughisenoughcampaign.com/goals.html

Universal creative standards"?? WTH?? So individual creativity is now a bad thing? Apparently the paint-by-numbers era is upon us for real. Do not think outside the box, innovation and artistic license are not welcome anymore.

"These standards should include prohibitions against lyrical and visual content that (a) objectifies, degrades, or promotes violence against women; (b) promotes illegal activity; (c) portrays Black and Latino men as "gangsters, pimps, thugs, and players," and (d) celebrates the usage of the word "nigga" (and it's derivatives), "hoe" (and it's derivatives), and "bitch" (in reference to women)"

Well…….the works of Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, Alice Walker, Zora Neal Hurston, Wallace Thurman and Claude McKay are prohibited to be seen or heard via Enough is Enough. Jacob Lawrence and Ernie Barnes…bye bye. Can’t even watch reruns of The Jeffersons, Sanford and Son or Good Times….why, this means even Roots can’t be celebrated once a year anymore!

Think I’m over-reacting? Think again…if you stifle anybody’s creativity, you stifle it all. You can’t silence SouljaBoy, Lil Wayne or Young Joc without also silencing Common or Lupe Fiasco. Are we supposed to demand that artists ignore their own instincts and vision? Who does that help? If Enough is Enough doesn’t like the fact that more and more young artists are only finding creative energy in the bleakness of their lives…..maybe the urge to write, sing, rap, paint or act on that bleakness is not the problem…maybe it’s the bleakness itself. It is nothing short of cowardly to make generic, ill-defined demands regarding the hot button topic of the moment without offering any tangible evidence of what the problem really is. Selecting a few lyrics from various rap songs is as genuine as me selecting a few passages from the Bible and using those passages to support a "the Bible is lewd, perverted literature" stance.

I don’t proclaim to have the answers for every ailment of the black community, but I do know this, those ailments are not cured if BET up and disappears from the cable lineup one night. Maybe its easier…its just easier to blame videos and movies and songs. It takes a lot more energy to analyze, criticize and bring attention to the effects of the No Child Left Behind Act and how it has decimated school systems around the country. I guess Rev. Coates doesn't want to point out his brethen in the pulpit and the disappearing act that the black church has pulled with regards to ANY issue of relevance....too busy preaching that "prosperity" message....hey....how is that different from the "bling bling" message?? Oh, and lets not forget about the pimp-slap of the 21st century - Katrina.....yeah, BET was the reason our government built and maintained a levee system that a class of about 15 rambuncious kindergarteners could have torn down. PUH-LEEEEZZZEEEE.

Gimme a break....You want to get rid of negative images? Protest Fox News.

Damn Tricky Dick We Got Mrs. Slick Willie and Her Dirty Bag of Tricks


Hmmm....

Looks like Hillary Clinton is trying to win this thing come hell or high water and isn't going to let any little thing such as ethics or DNC rules get in her way.

1. The Michigan and Soon the Florida Primary
By now we should all know that Hillary "won" Michigan. But with her name being the only major democratic name on the ballot and only garnering 55% of the vote (compared to the 40% who voted uncommitted), I'd hardly call hers a win decisive.

However. If Hilary was really playing fair (or by the DNC rules) she would have taken her name off of the Michigan ballot since their delegates are "not" going to be seated at the convention. At least that's what the DNC said the punishment was going to be for Michigan (and Florida) for moving their prmary up in the schedule against the DNC's wishes.

Recently Obama accused Hilary of campaigning in Florida against DNC rules regarding the FLorida Primary. Well, instead of saying "Of course I'm not doing that since it is against the rules." She said,

While Senator Clinton will honor her commitment not to campaign in Florida in violation of the pledge, she also intends to honor her pledge to hear the voices of all Americans. The people of Michigan and Florida have just as much of a right to have their voices heard as anyone else.

That doesn't soud like a woman who's going to abide by er council's rules and not campaign in state that (technically) has no delegates.

Now why would Hilary be shilling in a state with no delegates to be seated? Well Attytood has it's theories:


What if the primary season ends and none of the candidates have enough votes for the nomination -- unless you seated the delegates from Michigan and Florida?

Hmm. What if indeed. He goes on to say,

The process would be fraught with peril for the Democrats. Would they really not seat the delegates -- and risk offending voters and losing Florida and Michigan to the GOP in November? But what if seating the two states swung the balance of delegates from Obama to Clinton? Would African-American voters bolt the party over such a slight, penalizing the would-be first black president after he had played by the rules? (I think they would, frankly).

Who said 08 was going to be business as usual.

Dirty Trick #1: We'll call this the State Shake-N-Bake.

2. Teachers Sue to Block Hotel Workers' Union Vote in Nevada Caucus

LAS VEGAS — Nevada’s state teachers union and six Las Vegas area residents filed a lawsuit late Friday that could make it harder for many members of the state’s huge hotel workers union to vote in the hotly contested Jan. 19 Democratic caucus in Nevada.

The 13-page lawsuit in federal district court here comes two days after the 60,000-member Culinary Workers Union Local 226 in Nevada endorsed Senator Barack Obama, a blow to Mrs. Clinton. Mr. Obama addressed the Culinary Union at their hall earlier Friday.

The lawsuit argues that the Nevada Democratic Party’s decision, decided late last year, to create at-large precincts inside nine Las Vegas resorts on caucus day violates the state’s election laws and creates a system in which voters at the at-large precincts can elect more delegates than voters at other precincts. The lawsuit employs a complex mathematical formula to show that voters at the other 1,754 precincts would have less influence with their votes.

The at-large precincts are being established because thousands of hotel workers cannot leave work to participate in the midday caucuses in their home precincts. The Nevada State Education Association has said it would not endorse any Democrat, but some of its top officials have endorsed Mrs. Clinton. The association’s deputy executive director, Debbie Cahill, for instance, was a founding member of Senator Clinton’s Nevada Women’s Leadership Council.


So "technically" these are Hilary supporters and not the Clinton campaign itself. But when the decision was made last May to allow the hotel workers to use the casinos as caucus sites no had any objections. Of course back in May Clinton was the consensus front runner and was guaranteed the Culinary Workers Union endorsement.

Oh what a difference a few months make.

Dirty Trick #2: The Caucus Bait and Switch

3. It's a Race About Race - But No Not Really- Those Were Just Slips of the Tongue
By now I'm sure all are familiar with the Race Baiting that's been going on by the Cinton campaign against Senator Obama. Recently a truce was called though I don't know what Obama was trucing against since he didn't start the mess.

To keep track of all the "slips of the tongue" you can check out the Clinton Attacks Obama Wiki over at Jack and Jill Politics.

Dirty Trick #3: Will call this one the (Race) Freudian Slip


Hilary has learned well from Slick Willie on how to play politics. Who said the sexes were that different. Seems like in the game of politics men and women are more alike then not.

Black Folks May Not be Falling for the Okie Doke After All


Potentially troubling news for Clinton in Michigan 'win'

CNN) — Hillary Clinton faced a grim statistic in Michigan tonight, despite her primary "win" there: results revealed that she may have reason to worry about her grasp on the African-American vote.

Even so, roughly 70 percent of Michigan’s African-American voters — a group that makes up a quarter of Michigan’s Democratic electorate — did not cast their votes for Clinton, choosing the “uncommitted” option instead. Yet these voters weren’t uncommitted at all: in fact, according to CNN exit polls, they overwhelmingly favored Barack Obama, whose name did not appear on the ballot.

Had Obama’s name been on the Michigan ballot, CNN exit polls show that he would have won an overwhelming 73 percent of the African-American vote, in contrast to 22 percent who say they would have voted for Clinton under those circumstances. If South Carolina’s large African-American community votes as Michigan’s, Hillary may not be feeling much ‘southern hospitality’ in that state.

Source


Black vote not looking so safe now huh Mrs. Clinton? Might actually have to stop pandering to black folk and come up with some real policies and initiatives on what you're actually going to do for Black folks.

Hmm-hmmm. Might want to rethink the race baiting as well. Doesn't seem to be playing well with one of your core constituencies.

Quote of the Day

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Quote of the Day

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; know the worst and prepare for it.
- Patrick Henry

Sunday, January 13, 2008

How Black are They Now?

Look who's playing the Race Card.



Why it's no other then the "First Black President's" wife (does that make her the first black First Lady?), Hilary Clinton. Jack and Jill Politics has been keeping a running tab on the various "isolated" racial slips of the tongue that keep coming from the Clinton camp.

After Bill Clinton's call to Al Sharpton's radio show regarding his "fairytale" comment regarding Obama's run for President, Hilary Clinton goes on Meet the Press to say how Obama has mis-characterized her MLK/LBJ comments.



Black votes ain't looking so secure now are they? This is what happens when you go giving folk Black passes but they then find themselves threatened by the very folk who worshiped them. LOL. How's your Black president looking to you now?

Someone get Andrew Young on the phone.

Gender Does Not Trump Race


By now we've all read (or heard about) the Ny Times Op Ed piece written by Gloria Steinem on why Obama had a lead in the New Hampshire polls (she didn't have much to say after Clinton won). Alternet.org jumped into the fray with their article Gloria Steinem Debates Racism and Sexism in the '08 Election. In the comments section of the article a poster leaves this comment:

I have to say that I find self serving this comment made by Steinem


"That's why the Iowa primary was following our historical pattern of making change. Black men were given the vote a half-century before women of any race were allowed to mark a ballot, and generally have ascended to positions of power, from the military to the boardroom, before any women (with the possible exception of obedient family members in the latter). "

The reality which a great many white feminists ignore is that white women have more money, power, and access to the institutions of society than any color of man.

The hierarchy of power in this country looks like this..

white men, white women...men of all colors...women of all colors

White men..the true holders of all reigns of power have always been more allied to white women that ANY color of man.

Within each group and for the society at large the patriarchy prevails but the reality is that white women have had greater access to power and rescources both as a group and through their association with white men.

The primary beneficiaries of post 60s redistributive programs have not been black men but white women.

There are currently 16 female Senators..all white. There is 1 Black senator. Guess who that is?

Of the fortune 500 there are 13 women...again all white. There are 4 black CEOS.

Even when you control for the population bias the facts dont bear out her assertions. Particularly interesting is the result when you combine race and gener..and there are zero non white women in either category.

In terms of the vote lets not forget that during the suffrage movement white women gained the vote before black women by promising to white men..their staunchest and most reliable allies..that white women would help them maintain the color barrier in the south.

Steinem like many white feminists wishes to live in a paradign of oppression which largely ignores the reality that while women are oppressed by the patriarchy...WHITE women maintain more privilege than any other group in the nation except white men.

Creating a self serving in- between category where they can be oppressed as a woman while demanding that people not look too closely at the details of their privilege. Details which illuminate a picture where the ONLY people in the nation that are more priviliged are white men.

I suspect that Ms Stienem looked at what happened in Iowa and saw her candidate lose and saw gender as the reason. One wonders what she is saying after Mrs Clintons victory in New Hampshire.

Given the history of this nation should black people be writing op eds claiming that Barak didnt win because white folk arent ready?


That's what we call hitting the nail on the head. I've got nothing else to add. It never ceases to amaze me how White feminists never seem to talk about the intersection of race, gender and class in their discussion of "female oppression."

With White feminists the conversation always results in men vs. women but as a woman of color and any person of color can tell you, when it comes to discussing sexism, that's just where the conversation begins, not where it ends.

Friday, January 11, 2008


There was a funny conversation going on over at Lord Hannibal's blog. After mentioning he had an internet crush folk in the comments begin talking about can you tell what a blogger looked like just by how tey write?

One commenter noted that when she was blogging anonymously and asked her readers if they could tell what she looked like she was surprised at how dead on they were about how she looked without ever having met her.

I thought that was pretty funny.

So for those of you who read this blog I ask you...what do you think I look like?

Now some of you know what I look like. So don't go responding. LOL. But for those of you who don't...what do you think?