Archive for March, 2008
Friday, March 21st, 2008
The Silence of the Hypocrites
You’d think that Hillary or Bill would break their silence on the pseudo Wright controversy and defend Obama on the issue. Interestingly enough, Bill had called on Wright (as seen in the photo above) for spiritual support at a prayer breakfast during the Clinton’s 1998 Lewinsky-relatd grand jury hearings.
It is ironic that Bill had also […]
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
The Burden of Proof
I think that it is ironic and lamentable that Barack Obama is the one who has the burden to prove that he is not racist. We haven’t really seen that from Hillary or McCain. When their surrogates, spouses, or endorsers say something ridiculous and offensive, they simply reply, “I have a strong track record on […]
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Riches at the Cost of Lives
Last night on a flight from Madrid to Paris (that happened to have been delayed four hours), I was listening to the Bill Moyers Journal podcast from March 14. The Journal covered government oversight (parts I and II) and the Bush Administration’s secrecy as both pertained to government subcontracts in the War in Iraq. The […]
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
A Lesson in New Politics
This is Barack Obama’s speech where he discusses race in America and the recent outrage regarding statements made by Jeremiah Wright, the pastor of his church.
It is time for a new rhetoric and a new grammar in American politics, and Obama is showing us that it can be done. Listen to Obama and contrast him […]
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Where’s the Outrage?
What is more socially acceptable: to be an African American preacher describing the U.S.’s embarrsing human rights record in dealing with its own population, or to be a white evangelical preacher who is anti-Catholic, antisemetic, anti- Muslim, and homophobic?
Why is no one outraged that John McCain has not refused John Hagee’s endorsement? According to Hagee, […]
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
From Not Black Enough to Too Black
A year ago, Barack Obama was simply not white enough to get the “Black” vote. After Obama won in all white Iowa and then during the South Carolina primaries, Billary discovered a new plan — turn Barack Obama into a guy who is too Black for whites to vote for. Now Bill Clinton is saying […]
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Stuff White People Like
My bro sent me the link to the Stuff White People Like blog a few weeks ago, and it is pretty funny. You have a good list of accurate things White folk are into, including shorts and outdoor performance clothing, the idea of soccer, co-ed sports, graduate school, gentrification, divorce and bad break-ups, and much […]
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Letterman’s TOP TEN “Eliot Spitzer Excuses”
Yes, I know it’s a few days old, but it’s still funny:
10. “Oh come on, like you were never involved in a prostitution ring.”
9. “Hookers is fun.”
8. “Just trying to help the economy.”
7. “Have you ever been to Albany?”
6. “It’s part of my new MTV prank show, ‘Spitz’d.’”
5. “Haven’t been myself since Roy Scheider died.”
4. […]
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Is She Working for McCain?
In the Tom Toles @ the Washington Post.
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Who’s She Fighting?
I just read these very good points from Georgie Anne Geyer:
. . . [Hillary’s] mantra now is, ‘I am a fighter. I am a fighter.’ Very well, but what exactly does that mean?
Does that mean she is fighting the Republicans? It does not appear so, not when she says so unnervingly for her party […]
