Forum: Bloggers & Personal
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When reading of the DUmmie reaction to Obama's speech yesterday, the Johnny Ray emotion-laden song CRY was brought to mind along with another crying song on the flip side of the same record called THE LITTLE WHITE CLOUD THAT CRIED. This record was released at the end of 1951 and, amazingly, became the #1 and #2 hits respectively. Johnny Ray was noted for giving over the top performances of these songs in which he would almost always break out with tears flowing down his face. One possible reason for the emotional performances is that Ray probably realized that his...
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Obama's Black Identity Politics is Consistent With Jeremiah Wright’s Hate SpeechIf anyone believes that Barack Obama “just found out” about Jeremiah Wright’s vicious anti-American hate speech, we have a bridge in Brooklyn we would like to sell them. As shown by Obama’s own book Dreams From My Father, Obama’s deep involvement in Black identity politics–replace that with “White identity politics” to envision sheets, hoods, and burning crosses–is entirely consistent with his widespread involvement and association with racists, anti-Semites, and Catholic-haters. The bottom line is that Obama is not one of us and, by “us,” we mean mainstream America. To begin...
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This guy is nuts. Termed-out Democratic Senate leader, Dom Perata, laid out some insane claims yesterday in his whistle stop tour of the Bay Area to drum up support against education cuts during California’s budget crisis. Perata was flanked by local democrat soldiers, Assemblyman Mark DeSaulnier, who will be unopposed in the Democrat Primary for Torlakson’s seat, along with termed out Senator Tom Torlakson, who will be running for DeSaulnier’s seat; kind of a Contra Costa County two-fer. When informed businesses are importing foreign workers that can actually read English while the government run schools fail to teach American kids...
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One of the biggest stories in recent weeks and months has been the crisis facing the banking and the financial systems. The first rumblings in the mainstream press began last summer, when news of the housing bubble appeared. Yes, news of the rise in housing prices was well known long before that; but only after many areas of the country had flat sales did it occur to most people that the prices were the result of a bubble, and not of their own financial genius. With the peak in housing prices, and the slowdown in house sales, it was interesting...
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My political roots are in the Chicago of the 1980s, the interregnum between the Mayor Daleys when racial politics threatened to tear apart the city. National politics -- Reagan, Iran-Contra, etc -- flew at the edge of my political radar, but I was extremely attentive to the ongoing saga of Chicago city politics. Harold Washington, Chicago's mayor from 1983 through 1987, was my first and strongest political icon. I was, and remain, extremely proud that the very first vote I cast in my life was for his re-election in the mayoral campaign of 1987. Washington's substantial victory that year --...
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@import url(http://www.blogger.com/css/navbar/classic.css); div.b-mobile {display:none;} <body> THE TENSION Veritas vincit Monday, March 17, 2008 Combat Camera: Senator John McCain on Deck, Surveys Iraq Progress Arizona Republican Senator John McCain greets local businessmen as he walks through the streets of Haditha City, Iraq. McCain visited Iraq to view the progress that has been made by the Iraqi people and coalition forces. (Photo/Cpl. Shawn Coolman) The Provincial Governor of Ramadi, Ma’Moun Sami Rashid, and Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, tour through Haditha City, Iraq. Rashid and McCain toured the local area to view the progress that has been made. Rashid has worked extensively...
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All and all then it is difficult to believe that Sen Obama did not and does not still - [and] regardless of what he now claims in his speeches - share at least some of the views expressed by his mentor in those sermons now in question.
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As some of you already know, YOUR HERO has been invited to the 2008 Media Research Center Gala awards ceremony in Washington, D.C.. I believe it will be broadcast on C-SPAN. However, if you miss it on the tube, don't worry. You can catch the various awards presentations for excellence in media bias at the MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER site. However, here is a VIDEO of the highlights from the 2007 awards ceremony. Note the emphasis is on HUMOR here.
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Barack, I didn’t do it for this. Barack, I was a civil rights worker… South Carolina, 1966… 22 yrs old … helping old folks register to vote, teaching kids to read and write, directing Raisin in the Sun… Barack, I didn’t do it for this. Barack, I dream of my kindergarten best friend Andy from Walden School, Manhattan, born one day after me, shot dead in Mississippi 1964. Barack, I idolized Stokley Carmichael and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Barack, I lost the full use of my left hand for life in South Carolina. Barack, I didn’t do it for...
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Perhaps the most interesting character in Sen. Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance is his half-brother "Mark," even though he appears only briefly. Another half-white son of Barack Obama Sr., Mark, a physics student at Stanford, disturbs Obama with his individualism, well-adjusted personality, and lack of black racialism. He looks so much like Obama, but his values are so different. While many whites fantasize that Obama "transcends race," the Presidential candidate's autobiography is actually obsessed with race. It's his estranged half-brother Mark who is the true post-racial man. Mark is the son of Obama's...
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Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) mocked potential White House opponent Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) for changing his position on tax cuts. “In 2001, Senator John Sidney McCain opposed President George Walker Bush's tax cuts,” Obama pointed out. “But now he supports their extension. This is pandering at its worst.” "It’s as if he’s saying that the interests of taxpayers ought to take precedence over the needs of the government for more money,” Obama continued. “This is not the straight-talking maverick that he would like us to believe he is. This is the voice of greed.” Obama said he would...
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Dick Heller is the Federal security guard who lives and works in the District of Columbia. He's the named original plaintiff in the most significant constitutional case to reach the Supreme Court in several decades and the most significant Second Amendment case since the signing. After 90 minutes spent watching lawyers and justices parsing facts, laws and the Constitution, when Mr. Heller was asked by a reporter after the hearing why he took his case all the way to SCOTUS he had an answer, which I'll closely paraphrase: I'm a federal guard. I carry a gun at work to protect...
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We've boycotted Olympic games before-usually for human rights abuses. Considering what's happening in Tibet-AND-the levels of pollution in Beijing- it's time to do it again!!
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Oral arguments before the Supreme Court are a nasty business. Today the Supremes (depending on their disposition) heard or ignored arguments in the Heller Case, the Washington D.C. gun ban. The consensus among all of us who listened to the arguments is “we still don’t know how this is going to pan out.” Crap. Ginsberg, in her growing senile dementia, brought-up state bans on machine guns as a proxy for the ‘reasonable’ ban angle. Sorry guys. The fight has just begun and will last long after they have shoveled dirt on our faces. From the oral arguments and some insights...
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Obama’s speech is out at Drudge and reading it I find it lacking. Maybe in person it was not so bad, but most of us won’t be listening to it or seeing it. Most of will have to simply read it. The first problem is the history lesson on this great and imperfect nation. Obama comes of sounding like he is the only one on a journey to perfect the union, to move beyond the divisions and hate: "This was one of the tasks we set forth at the beginning of this campaign – to continue the long march of...
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Maybe Barack Obama just wanted to change the subject or maybe he genuinely missed the point. I don’t know. Only he and God know what’s in his heart. I do know that, in his speech today, he didn’t address the main point concerning me in the firestorm of controversy that has arisen in recent days over comments made by the Pastor of the “black church” where Obama has placed his membership for nearly the past 20 years. As this matter has intensified, it struck me that the definition of my related concern was embodied in the famous words of a...
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NEW YORK - Wall Street barreled higher Tuesday as investors found relief in better-than-expected results from Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs, and anticipated a massive interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve.The Dow Jones industrial average surged 300 points.Investors, while they've seen a number of huge advances amid the market's recent volatility, appeared considerably more upbeat than in the past few days. They're confident that when the Fed's meeting lets out at 2:15 p.m. EDT, it will reduce the target federal funds rate by a full point, bringing the rate to 2 percent.
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I’d like to think that America today is beyond the barbaric state of old monarchies. I’d like to think that it doesn’t matter a lick who the next leader is; that my life will not change a bit based on who’s in the oval office. But it does. The constitutional limits our founders placed on leaders have been ignored by the public in return for goodies and pork, which politicians gladly promise. We’ve allowed far too much responsibility for our lives to shift to government. We now look to them to save us from natural disasters, job change, discomfort, boredom,...
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I was surprised, and horrified, to learn that Barack Obama endorsed Alderman Dorothy Tillman for re-election in Tuesday's runoff. For those of you who aren't local or who wisely avoid the open sewer of Chicago politics, Dorothy Tillman is the disastrously corrupt, incompetent, and even demented alderman of the south side's long-decrepit 3rd Ward... I just can't understand is how he could throw in with Tillman, the one example I know of the kind of person white right-wingers imagine when they think of black politicians linking militant race rhetoric to city machine corruption.
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Get Ready folks, because after today, NO ONE in the MSM is going to be talking about the Rev. Jeremiah (KKK) Wright. Once Barry Obama addresses the issue, it becomes "old news." http://brettwinterble.com/
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