Jack & Jill Politics

"DAMN! they look good! and happy!!!
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Nita,



I know! I love looking at them!



I can't wait to watch them walk to/from the plane together! Wow!

DAMN! they look good! and happy!!!

Komack makes a point: Hillary and McCain have thrown their spouses under the bus at various times. Michelle would-and has-gone through the gates of hell for Barack.


d,



we don't agree on a lot, but we totally agree on this.

Rep. Clyburn takes on Bill Clinton (again)

d.,


I understood your first comment perfectly.

I was reading HuffPost and they had some exerpts from Bill Moyer's interview with Rev Wright. I think even more interesting is reading some of the comments to the exerpts.


Excerpts from Moyer interview with Rev Wright



I apologize in advance if the link has already been posted here.

d,


" Michelle would-and has-gone through the gates of hell for Barack.

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So true! She's the power behind the man!



I love admiring them!

Ms. Martin -


I agree with you whole heartedly!



Anonymous 08:31:00 AM 2008--



I think your idea about contacting local stations about these ads is brillant!

"Maybe all black folks should scare dem leaders by threatening to stay home or write in someone like Cynthia McKinney or Ralph Nader if the nomination is stolen from Barack."


That's definitely the plan for me. I'm an Independent who hasn't voted Dem since Dukakis in '88, but I was willing to come back to the fold to pull the lever for Obama. Aren't I the type of voter that the DNC is supposed to be so rabid for? I'm sure I'm not the only one so the DNC poobahs can play if they want to, but if they screw this up they will have no right on November 5 to whine about how they can't attract swing voters when there's a golden opportunity in their laps RIGHT NOW!



Barack and Michelle are such a gorgeous couple. It really comes through in photos of them how much they are head over heels for each other.

Barack's (and Michelle's) ascension is illustrative of how far many of us have come in American society.


It's also a stark reminder of just how far many Americans still have to go.

"Maybe all black folks should scare dem leaders by threatening to stay home or write in someone like Cynthia McKinney or Ralph Nader if the nomination is stolen from Barack."


-Don't threaten.

Do it.

Where I hail from I can't write in for Presidential candidates.

This picture got me thinking about the feeling I had when I wrote this, back in Oct, on a blog I participate in:


http://www.gerardbutler-afterdark.com/2007/10/baracks-greatest-asset.html





I just think they are such a (as someone put) authentic couple and wonderful example to hold up as being representative of our country. How can anyone look at that and see differently...I wonder?

It was a real privilege to hit the pavement for Obama with Baratunde last Sunday. For anyone interested in my writeup about the experience:


http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/anderkoo/2008/04/20/obama-pa08-canvassing-sw-philly/



http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/anderkoo/2008/04/22/obama-pa08-the-projects-of-n-philly/



http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/anderkoo/2008/04/23/obama-pa08-what-happened-and-what-didnt-in-north-philly/

ms. martin, ms. martin, telling it like it is!


I think that we all need to remember that this is an epic struggle for the right and the power to drive an agenda that is in opposition to the agenda of the Clintons and others who have been in the driver's seat for a long, long, time. In other words, they ain't leavin' the car peacefully. And, they will fight to the last moment.



We have an opportunity to take the car. We have followed the rules and played the game accordingly. We will get there and we will be able to deliver ourselves from this morass.

Very good column by Myerson over at the Washington Post. He says that, if the Clinton team still the nomination, then blacks, the dems most loyal constituency, may stay home or vote for someone else. He also says that Hillary's below-the-belt attacks against Barack is similar to the attacks the GOP played on anti Vietnam candidates of the 60's.


Maybe all black folks should scare dem leaders by threatening to stay home or write in someone like Cynthia McKinney or Ralph Nader if the nomination is stolen from Barack.

Ok you guys are about to make me tear up....

Thanks for sharing this, Jack.


Michelle's love, support, and "fabulosity" are undeniable!

I almost want to concede and walk away.


I don't agree with all of Obama's ideas, but maybe-just maybe-there's something better than business as usual.



Komack makes a point: Hillary and McCain have thrown their spouses under the bus at various times. Michelle would-and has-gone through the gates of hell for Barack.

I can appreciate the difficult decisions regarding selection of news, ads, and the pressures involved in those management decisions. This morning our local WRAL TV station decided not to air the NC GOP attack ad at a critical time in our national and state electoral process. They should be applauded. I’ m suggesting that you contact any station showing the ad and express your feelings. The image is in the public domain.


The Rev. Wright ad as well as the one about gangs is not just about politics. There are several subliminal coded race messages lodged in the ads. These stations are not merely informing the public but they are unwittingly contributing to stirring up racial animus in our community. The ads do not bring out the best in us.



Also I am have asked Senator Dole and Senator Burr not to contribute to stirring up racial animosity. I want both of them to join Senator McCain demand that the N.C. GOP attack ads be pulled. The Clinton campaign has been conspicuously slight on this issue. Race is in the campaign because Senator Obama is an African American, but racist tentacles do not have to be ingrained in this campaign. We are better than this as a nation, as North Carolinians.





I’ m asking them to make an ethical and not a political decision.

"Try getting John and Cindy to take that picture."


-Not after Mr. Straight Talk called his wife Cindy a "cunt".

The family is beautiful, the picture is beautiful and the affection is always there and very real.


We should all be so lucky.



This is the image this country needs at the forefront so that we may all heal.

It seems SBO has turned his attention to John McCain in preparation and I believe we should do the same.


It is no mistake that he has watched his monney closely and he will need it and more to combat the attacks from the Right Wing and 527s. They've already started spending money on ads.



Everybody should donate as much as they can, he will need it to fight the Hillary and RNC machine.

I wish more people understood what the Constitutional teacher is trying to tell them.


A vote against him is a vote against yourself and for your corrupt government.



He speaks to you of the Founding Fathers and creation of this nation reciting the documents that were meant to guide us through our maturity, these documents were not created to delve your conscience for a glimmer of morality, but to ensure that no goverment should be greater than its people and that no government should be used against its people; that when the government of the people no longer works for the people but for the financial and egotistical benefict of a few it should be dismantled and reassembled.



It is very simple. Whether you are black, white, hispanic, asian, jewish, irish, catholic or christian, if you live in the United States of America your government is failing you.



Your government does not work for the people, but against them in favor of a few.



George Bush is not just a poor manager, but similiar to a tyrannical dictator. He has ignored the very law of the country he was chosen to lead; he has used resources of the country to benefit a few financially while the people lose their homes, face prices for basic needs that are crippling their budgets and endangering their well-being. He has assembled a judicial body that seeks to deny you civil rights.



Hillary Clinton is promising you she can, as a Democrat, change what George Bush has done because she is a Democrat. What she does not tell you and what SBO is trying to tell you is that while she may know the workings of Washington, she is complicit in behavior that brought us to where we are, behavior that many common men are unaware of that is the very behavior that George Bush is guilty of.



Hillary and Bill Clinton were able to amass their 109 million fortune after leaving the Whitehouse because of controls that they set in place while they were in the Whitehouse. They formed allegiances and monolopies with companies and foreign governments and sold the future of the American people. The Clintons made deals and passed legislature that worked to the detriment of its people. They would have you believe that because the working-class man made a few dollars more that they were good for him.



While the average man made a $1,000 more a year while they were in office, their friends and allies made millions a year while they were in office and they made hundreds of thousands more a year after they left office based on the allegiances they made while they were in office.



I think it is time for SBO to drive his message hard. It is time to just tell the common man exactly what he means.

Craig,
Hope you didn't take the wrong way.



You see that picture-the genuine, unstaged affection-and you can't help but be touched by it.



Try getting John and Cindy to take that picture.



Obama has shown this country something we're not ready for.

D,


You're on point.

This is my favorite picture of them. I just love what it portrays.


" I got your back, Barack", Michelle is saying.

Thanks Angela. I had the opportunity to help elect Wilder and I am looking forward to electing Obama as well.

to dws


I just finished reading that article and also was going to post. The whole article was a positive for me. Here's a bit more. I would encourage everyone to read.



"Obama Gets Encouragement and Warning From Wilder (Update1)



By Heidi Przybyla



April 24 (Bloomberg) -- Doug Wilder, the nation's first elected black governor, has both encouragement and a warning for Illinois Senator Barack Obama.



The encouragement is that Obama is approaching the race issue the right way, and the nation is ready to elect a black president. The warning is that it may not be as ready as polls suggest.



``Let's not kid ourselves again, the issue of race will not disappear; but I don't think it will predominate,'' the former Virginia governor said in an interview at his office in Richmond, where he is now mayor. At the same time, he said, even if Obama is the nominee and heads into the fall with an apparent lead, the election ``will be closer than any polls will suggest.''



Wilder, 77, is an authority in the matter. In 1989, he won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in the overwhelmingly white onetime cradle of the Confederacy. Polls taken just before Election Day had put him ahead of his Republican competitor by as much as 10 percentage points; he won by less than half a percentage point.



Wilder said he believes Obama has done a good job so far in blunting the race issue. ``Obama, by not running as an African- American, has been able to show that race is coincidental to his being,'' rather than the centerpiece of his campaign, he said.



The message Obama, 46, sends to voters is ```I'm not being dominated by any groups,''' Wilder said. ``That includes African- Americans.

Sorry about that...


http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080424/pl_bloomberg/asjvmcty4ak

Love this quote from Doug Wilder:


"Bias against Clinton, 60, may have more to do with specific incidents that have reinforced stereotypes, he said. `'Hillary's reactions to things conjure up images that are not necessarily the healthiest in terms of hissy fits or reactions because of emotions, like the crying and the weeping and then forgetting somewhat that she did that,'' he said.





http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080424/pl_bloomberg/asjvmcty4ak

Indeed his humanization is frightening to hoards of “privileged” people and they simply don’t know what to do. What began as a neat, little campaign by another “token” African American has turned out to be the sum of all of their fears. I remembered watching Roots during the episode in which the slaves were finally freed. My attention wasn’t on the jovial blacks that sank to their knees to give praise; I instead concentrated, even relished in seeing the befuddled look on the white slave owners faces knowing their way of life was coming to an end. Again, we will be able to see through the thinly veiled masks of many of the people, who plotted against us under the pretense of secretly preserving a way of life that “is” unconstitutional, but irrational, illogical, and ungodly. God bless Sen. Obama, his lovely wife Michelle, their children and everyone who supports all that is right in the world and the universe.

What a gorgeous couple! I love'em!

That's a great photo.

This is s great pic...natural, easy affection.


Watch for Cindy McCain to go after Michelle. Lots of people say Michelle has a Jacki-O vibe.. Cindy does not like that, and has gone after Michelle with veiled insults.

d.,


You never cease to amaze me.

Obama doesn't belong in politics. He's too... human.

This looks good... Really good. We're getting close. Just hold on a little while longer. By the way... Watch out for Indiana... I hope the GOP isn't dumb enough to switch parties again like they did in Ohio and Texas... Read this link...


http://www.thestarpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080328/OPINION/803280321