http://youtube.com/watch?v=IVy-w7CGz_w

I cannot not be weary of a candidate who counts on people’s prejudices to win the nomination. In addition, her surrogates have all been very disrespectful of Obama in ways that I dont remember his being towards her.

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He wasn’t in the Senate yet BUT he was running to get there. He made that speech at a time when Bush had overwhelming public support and anyone who disagreed with the war would have been making a dangerous decision in terms of their longevity. Senator Lincoln Chaffee was fired as one of those who voted against the war.

Obama spoke out against the Iraq war IN SPITE OF the polling that showed he would likely lose the election as a result of a stand. He had the most to lose by speaking out then because he was likely to not get elected as a result but he put conscience before ambition. He trusted in the people of Illinois to recognize his honesty and his first rate character even when they disagree much like he is betting on the national electorate to see through your spin as a mignon of Hillary to choose the best candidate for the job and the one that most represents our values & goals.

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Obama spoke out against war in Iraq. I’m glad he did but we don’t know how he would have voted. 1) He did not enter the Senate until January 2005. The Iraq resolution was passed in October 2002. 2) He opposed the war but voted twice to continue funding to war.

So what are we to on by his speech or his actions?

I can’t hold a candidate accountable for idiotic comments made by their supporters. If I did, I would have to vote for Ralph Nadar if Obama won the nomination.

1. I am shocked that you have the audacity to talk about Obama supporters but what Clinton Supporters are better?
I think a lot of people even whites and even people who did not support Obama felt that the Clintons were somehow injecting race. I never hated the Clintons and I still dont. Hillary is my junior senator. However I was very disappointed. In addition, I have been especially disappointed in the way in which she has run her campaign. It wasnt just one or two supporters or comments. It became a pattern. Do you see Senator Barack Obama’s supporters tearing down Hillary, the way her supporters and surrogates have on issues that have nothing to do with policies at his rallies or in statements…I haven’t. Hillary’s campaign has been the one taking most of the cheap shots.

2. I’m sick of people attacking Obama supporters as if we make decisions based on emotion! We are passionate about Barack Obama’s candidacy. I admire his fight for legislation and constant call for government transparency. I like how he wants to engage the American people in the political process. He is not a perfect man and I dont think that he has been or will be right on every single issue. He has even acknowledged that. I will apologize if you have encountered any Obama supporters that have been aggressive or unfair. I dont support that and neither does Barack. When we speak on this site, we speak based on facts. I cannot tell you how many blogs (whose writers and readers are mostly Clinton supporters)speak based on hate, false accusations, half-truths, prejudice. You could go look for them yourself, its easy to find…trust.me!! I had a professor compare Obama to Hitler in class (she’s a Hillary supporter). A Good friend of mine was a Clinton supporter, she jumped ship. They drove her away.

3. We have no problem with constructive criticizism but when I hear what I hear too often about Obama being an “empty suit” I have all right to be upset.

4. We have all the right to hold our black leadership accountable. I have been waiting for this moment. I have no problem with them supporting Clinton, my mom does, but I have a problem with their denial and the way they act like black people owe the Clintons something.

5. As for the sax crap…why would you assume that I like anyone else on this blog actually fell for it. When people were cheering for Clinton playing the sax, I watched him throw Sister Souljah under the bus in order to please white sensibilities. I watched him refuse to even out the disparity between crack and powder cocaine. I watched him “reform” welfare. I watched more and more of my brothers go to jail under his administration. The gap between rich and poor got wider. I watched him step away from Jocelyn Elders, Lani Guiner and Marian Edelman Wright. I don’t give a damn about the fried chicken and waffles dish, the soul food restaurant down the street named after him. I was appalled when people actually took seriously the idea of Bill Clitnon being the “first black president”. I’m from New York, I grew up in the Bx. I dont care if Clinton has his office in Harlem. A lot of white people have their office in Harlem. It is one of the least expensive part of the city. They didnt choose to live in Harlem, they live in Chappaqua…two blocks down from my friend Rachel, in one of the richest towns in the state if not country. When I look at the Clintons, I look at what they have done. They have done good but they have also done things that have affected our community in a bad way. Let me not forget the atrocity in Rwanda. I cannot sit here and act like there were things that they did while in office that did not hurt our people.

6. Its not about whose evil its about whose frontin…ok.

7. “Shuck and Jive” and the idea of it…isn’t something to take lightly. Try to make him look like a drug dealer or as someone who has been doing “something in the neighborhood” shouldnt be taken lightly and the list goes on. These tactics are old and they with many of the other tactics, have been used before against our people and they are not ok. Cece and Althea, don’t look for me to defend you when your…NEXT!

Nobody is putting anybody on a hit list because of their support for Hillary. For me, the reason that Waters, Jackson-Lee, and Tubbs Jones need to go is because of their undeniable failure to bring jobs, programs, policies, etc. they uplift and empower their communities. These folks have been in power too long to not have done more for their respective communities. The fact that they are supporting Clinton when their congressional districts overwhelmingly support Obama is for me the straw the broke the Camel’s back so to speak.

You’ve been a reader for some time?

So that means you’re fine with the Dogwhistle/race-baiting politics pointed out on this blog by Rikyrah et al, that have turned many of us against the Clintons – many of us who, mind you, were NOT adverse to the Clintons prior to these insulting tactics:

* Clinton supporter Andrew Young says Bill Clinton is “blacker than Barack” because “he’s probably gone with more black women then Barack”.

** A politically sophisticated man born in 1957 uses the term “shuck and jive” casually? Oh sure…

and Maxine Waters, John Lewis and all of these other folks who need to step aside but won’t.

1 – Wal-Mart (on whose board of directors Hillary sat while first lady of Arkansas) is sponsoring his mega-five-city (big $$$) museum tour.
2 – Bill Clinton is (shamelessly) hawking his latest book on Tavis’s website.
3 – Tavis thinks his *movement* (The “so-called” Covenant) is more important than Barack’s *movement* to be America’s first REAL black president. If you recall, last year’s SOTBU was marred, yes marred, by the attacks launched by the panelists (Jackson, West and Dyson spring to mind) against Obama -and supported by Tavis – BECAUSE on that same day Barack Obama was announcing his presidential candidacy in Illinois, rather than at their bullshit-psycho-babble-I-ain’t-really-a-black-leader-but-I-play-one-on-TV fest.

For nine years, Tavis has insisted that he’s our guide to salvation – if we buy his books. Frankly, as a dear friend pointed out, Tavis is like the guy at the laundromat selling socks from a garbage bag. Truth is, I’ve already got socks. And they’ll be dry in 10 minutes. Don’t try and sell me something I do not need.

Tavis is a loser. The Q&A with Hillary was pathetic. He’s definitely not a journalist. But he did spend the night at a Holiday Inn Express.

If you think that, when I refer to Dogwhistle, race-baiting politics, that it has to do with the MLK/LBJ comments EXCLUSIVELY…

Sorry, Black folk aren’t that ‘ sensitive’.

Click on the Wiki to the left of the blog. I do believe we’ve up to 40 such incidents.