Jack & Jill Politics

Did anyone hear MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell asking ...again....WHO is President? Is she having a problem with President elect Obama having 3 Press Conferences on the economy?

She's having a problem grasping the concept of somebody who actually takes charge when obviously others don't. Everybody knows Dubya is playing computer solitaire and minesweeper and reading the latest celebrity gossip on mediatakeout.com everyday and not at all trippin over anything else.

O'Donnell is a HATER.

Shrub has a calendar inside the Oval Office. The best part of the day for him is when he gets to put an X through a day. He's so checked out it's not even funny.

rikyrah: The President-Elect CAN "MULTITASK!" :>)

Change is Coming to FEMA

By Al Kamen
The Federal Emergency Management Administration, a tragicomic disaster since Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 -- and even before then -- looks to be getting a facelift under the Obama administration, sources tell us.

First off, the likely plan is to break off the agency from the Department of Homeland Security, a move that would in itself help restore the pride FEMA folks felt when it was an independent agency.

Second, there's increasing talk that former director James Lee Witt, who took over the then-troubled agency at the start of the Clinton administration and left it eight years later with a much enhanced reputation for getting things done, is coming back in from retirement to run FEMA for maybe six months to a year and whip it into shape.

After that, so the plan goes, his possible deputy administrator, Mark Merritt, who worked with Witt at James Lee Witt Associates -- where they made a fortune on disasters -- would take over the top job at FEMA.



Witt's no stranger to this clean-up role, lest we forget what he inherited when he took the FEMA reins back in 1993. FEMA was so badly ridiculed for botching relief efforts after Hurricane Andrew in 1992 that outraged senators were threatening to zero out its budget and former senator Ernest Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.) opined "they could screw up a two-car parade."

Witt, who was Clinton's state emergency management chief in Arkansas, was widely credited with reorganizing and re-energizing the agency.

However, Witt is likely to be grilled about his work on Katrina relief. Witt and Merritt began their work in the days after the hurricane, when Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco hired their disaster recovery firm in an open-ended, no-bid contract.

THERE IS MORE.

CHANGE is HAPPENING!!! :>) Whoooo! hoo! :>) :>)

Obama’s election has black nationalist revisiting stance

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stor...

rikyrah: There is an UPDATE on this article:

Ma href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/18/peter-orszag-obamas-budge_n_144704.html">Peter Orszag: Obama 's Budget Director

***Check back for updates! For the latest on Obama's cabinet, check out HuffPost's Obama Cabinet Big News Page!***

***UPDATE*** 11/24 6:13PM Ezra Klein reflects on what the selection of Orszag means for healthcare reform:

If you're interested in health care reform, the appointment of Peter Orszag to be director of the Office of Management and Budget is second only in importance to the the elevation of Tom Daschle to health czar and HHS secretary.


OMB is a strange place. It's incredibly important, but also somewhat amorphous. It's a cabinet level agency that offers policy recommendations to the president, scores programs, builds the yearly budget. It is how the executive branch imposes empirical rigor on its agencies, and coheres their work into a single budget. In that way, it is the connective tissue of the federal bureaucracy. And the director sits atop all that, sets many of the agency's priorities, and is, generally, one of the president's top policy advisers.

SKIP

Orszag, who will turn 40 on Dec. 16, has been praised by lawmakers from both parties as an objective analyst with deep knowledge of the most pressing fiscal issues of the day, including health care policy, Social Security, pensions, and global climate change. He is the unusual economist who blends an understanding of politics, policy and communications in ways that wrap zesty quotes around complex ideas. If confirmed by the Senate to move to OMB, Orszag will have completed half of his four-year CBO term. Orszag, a father of two school-age children and an avid runner, holds degrees from Princeton University and the London School of Economics. The National Academies of Sciences' Institute of Medicine recently made him a member.

THERE IS MORE.

GOOD NEWS!! :>) :>)

Al G. has some excellent article over on THE FIELD regarding the Clintons as SOS. On the left side of my brain, I can't wait to see how this plays out. I just have a feeling that "they" know something we don't know. I also wonder about the TRUTH of who leaked what. I don't see how O can think the Clintons will be a good SOS because they are meglomaniacs. I also think Bill does A LOT of unethical stuff including but not limited to having $ funneled into offshore bank accounts. I think they only report an nth of their personal fortune. Aside from quid pro quo, why would O put himself in this boat? He can't win. If they become SOS, they become O's face to the world. If she doesn't get the title, white women PUMA throwbacks are going to skewer him. Will Iranians receive her after she said she would obliterate them? Did meeting with other presidential wives really prepare her to play hardball with Kim Jung Il? Well, watching this is as good as any political novel except that it's real life and not fiction. I hope he didn't shoot us in the foot.

rikyrah: Here's Huffpo's version of the SAME article. BUT it is "NAMIN' NAMES!":

Bush Pardons 14, Commutes 2 Prison Sentences

On the latest pardon list were:

_Leslie Owen Collier of Charleston, Mo., who pleaded guilty in 1995 to unlawfully killing three bald eagles in southeast Missouri. He improperly used pesticide in hamburger meat to kill coyotes, but ended up killing many other animals, including the bald eagles. Collier, who was convicted for unauthorized use of a pesticide and violating the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, was sentenced Feb. 2, 1996 in the Eastern District of Missouri.

_Milton Kirk Cordes of Rapid City, S.D. Cordes was convicted of conspiracy to violate the Lacey Act, which prohibits importation into the country of wildlife taken in violation of conservation laws.

_Richard Micheal Culpepper of Mahomet, Ill., who was convicted of making false statements to the federal government.
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_Brenda Jean Dolenz-Helmer of Fort Worth, Texas, convicted of concealing knowledge of a crimeDolenz-Helmer, the daughter of a Dallas doctor accused of medical insurance fraud, was convicted in connection with the doctor's case. She was sentenced Dec. 31, 1998 in the Northern District of Texas to four year's probation with the special condition of 600 hours of community service and a $10,000 fine.

_Andrew Foster Harley of Falls Church, Va. Harley was convicted of wrongful use and distribution of marijuana and cocaine during a general court martial at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.

_Obie Gene Helton of Rossville, Ga., whose offense was unauthorized acquisition of food stamps.

_Carey C. Hice Sr. of Travelers Rest, S.C., who was convicted of income tax evasion.

_Geneva Yvonne Hogg of Jacksonville, Fla., convicted of bank embezzlement.

_William Hoyle McCright Jr. of Midland, Texas, who was convicted of bank fraud.

_Paul Julian McCurdy of Sulphur, Okla., who was sentenced for misapplication of bank funds.

_Robert Earl Mohon Jr. of Grant, Ala., who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute marijuana.

_Ronald Alan Mohrhoff of Los Angeles, who was convicted for unlawful use of a telephone in a narcotics felony.

_Daniel Figh Pue III of Conroe, Texas, convicted of illegal treatment, storage and disposal of a hazardous waste without a permit.

_Orion Lynn Vick of White Hall, Ark., who was convicted of aiding and abetting the theft of government property.

Bush also commuted the prison sentences of John Edward Forte of North Brunswick, N.J., and James Russell Harris of Detroit, Mich. Both were convicted of cocaine offenses.

Under the Constitution, the president's power to issue pardons is absolute and cannot be overruled.

Some high-profile individuals, such as Michael Milken, are seeking a pardon on securities fraud charges. Two politicians convicted of public corruption _ former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Calif., and four-term Democratic Louisiana Gov. Edwin W. Edwards _ are asking Bush to shorten their prison terms.

One hot topic of discussion related to pardons is whether Bush might decide to issue pre-emptive pardons before he leaves office to government employees who authorized or engaged in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Some constitutional scholars and human rights groups want the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama to investigate possible war crimes.

If Bush were to pardon anyone involved, it would provide protection against criminal charges, particularly for people who were following orders or trying to protect the nation with their actions. But it would also be highly controversial.

At the same time, Obama advisers say there is little _ if any _ chance that his administration would bring criminal charges.

O.K. Soooo, WHAT QUESTIONS MIGHT AN INQUIRING MIND ASK??:

1. Which of SHRUB's FRIENDS are these people related to?

2. Which REPUGS are they RELATED TO OR FRIENDS OF?

3. How MANY are People of Color?

4. Does SHRUB KNOW any of these people?

5. Are ANY RELATED to HIM?

Any more?? :>) :>)

I am with Bush on some of these.. conspiracy to distribute marijuana, unlawful use of a telephone in a narcotics felony.. sound like stupid reasons to be in jail to me! There has to be some deep deep backstory that I don't care to look-up.

Which position on Obama's team will be in charge of the prison system? Is that Eric Holder? The jails need some reform also, IMO.

Will he pardon himself?

IIRC....didn't someone ask him on the campaign trail if he was going to look into whether Bush committed possible war crimes?

rorysmomma: Iffff there is a "quick" conviction of the crimes that he has committed [like, causing loss of life & limb, etc. in these STUPID WARS!

Cherie Blair probably wishes old boy would tap that ass.... Hate to say it. It must be lonely sleeping on that pedestal. Let's be real. These bitches act like Barack married michelle last week. They have been married for 16 years..... Cherie Blair should just keep her damn mouth shut.

What these women don't get is that Michelle lives by her own rules, not the 3rd wave pseudo-feminist agenda of disgruntled and competitive (usually white) woman brigade. Michelle is happy. Michelle is content. Michelle is not a totem by which they can set their standards against. She is not "Every Woman". She is herself. Until they get that they are going to want to 'advise' her or talk about how she should feel by appropriation. When did any of these women care sooooo much except they are trying to live vicariously through her and want Barack for themselves of course! They not only envy Michelle - they want to knock her off the radar.

Obama the fragrance?


lol

I'd get me a part time job at Macys or Nordstroms to sell "OBAMA" the fragrance of HOPE & CHANGE!

rikyrah: When is it coming out?? Where will it be sold?? :>) :>)

GLH,

it's being hawked on the streets of NYC..LOL

I'm headed back home (NYC) this week to see my family in Harlem. I'll check with the vendors to see. Wink...

sdg1844: IFFF you find some, DAB some on yourself for me! :>)

"DESPERATE times deserve DESPERATE measures!" :>) :>)

rikyrah: O.K. Let's see: IFFF I can get a flight on Tuesday; then I can make my purchase on Wed; then. . . . . . .

NEVER MIND! I'll wait 'til it hits the West Coast! :>) :>) :>)

I'll mail you some.

nickwah22: LOL! :>) U R 2 kind! :>)

now, that is a good one!!! are you getting that for the chifarobe? lol

I just saw the Obama plate commercial for the first time...

hilarious

Justice58: CHESS That's the NAME of the P-E's GAME - PLAN!! :>)

President-Elect Obama! :>) First Lady Michelle! :>)

FTA with Colombia Favors Companies over Colombians
November 19, 2008 By Charles Mostoller
Charles Mostoller's ZSpace Page

The Free Trade Agreement would exacerbate an already grave humanitarian crisis


The U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Colombia is back in the spotlight, after President Bush allegedly conditioned his support for a bailout of the auto industry on the Democrats dropping their opposition to the FTA.

For months, the FTA has been tied up in Congress due to concerns over Colombia's atrocious human rights record.

Until now, the debate has centered on the many deaths suffered by labor leaders at the hands of government and paramilitary forces.

At the behest of U.S. organized labor, President-elect Barack Obama, during his Presidential campaign, repeatedly denounced the FTA suggesting that it would increase violence against Colombian labor activists.

Yet President Bush refuses to give up, despite a Colombian nationwide referendum on the FTA in 2005 that 98% of Colombians voted against.

Not surprisingly, The Wall Street Journal concurs with Bush policy by asserting that Obama does not understand the benefits of "Free Trade".

The renewed interest in passage of the FTA in the U.S. comes at a pivotal moment in Colombia.

Right now, thousands of indigenous protestors, union activists and leaders of the peasant movement are marching from the south of the country to the capital city of Bogota, to protest the neo-liberal economic policies of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe—Bush's main ally in the region.

A confrontation between the indigenous protestors and government forces exploded a month ago, when soldiers opened fire on thousands of demonstrators in northern Cauca, injuring dozens of civilians. At least four people were killed.

Two weeks ago, the head of the Colombian Armed Forces, General Mario Montoya and 26 other high-ranking officers were forced to resign. The officers had been linked to a military practice known as ‘false-positives,' where poor city youth are detained, taken to into the jungle, shot, and then dressed in camouflage to be presented as leftist FARC rebels killed in combat.

Complicating the situation, Uribe's government is mired in scandal. Many legislators in his party are in jail or under prosecution for ties to paramilitaries, death squads, and drug cartels.

Shortly before the U.S. Presidential election, Uribe sat down to negotiate with the indigenous movement, but after hours of debate, he rejected all of the movement's demands.

Faced with Uribe's rebuff, on November 10th, the Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca (ACIN) sent an open letter to Obama, asking him not to support the Free Trade Agreement with Colombia.

In turn, the Uribe government has accused the indigenous groups of helping the FARC to plant a bomb that killed two soldiers late in the day on Tuesday, a charge that the indigenous movement adamantly denies.

Manuel Rozental, a spokesperson for the ACIN, said that the government wants to criminalize the indigenous movement in order win public support for its ongoing campaign of violence against their peaceful mobilization, known as the minga in Colombia.

"The indigenous movement has made a very clear statement against war and against all warring factions, including the armed insurgency," he said.

"It only provides the government the argument to move in and attack civilians and then blame them as being terrorists," he continued. "Taking arms to resist an aggressive regime would be to transform oneself into the same entity that one is opposing."

The primary demand of the movement is an end to the neo-liberal economic policies promoted by Uribe and to the brutal security measures employed under the US-backed Plan Colombia.

For Colombia's indigenous peoples, the government's combined economic and security policies have only resulted in poverty and violent dispossession from their land.

Although little discussed, Colombia has more than four million internally displaced peoples, second only in magnitude to the crisis in Darfur.

According to Rozental, transnational mining and natural gas companies are behind the forced displacement of indigenous peoples from resource rich areas.

"Without the constant terror from the government, it would be impossible to deliver the resources and territories of the country to transnational corporations," he said.

"Four million people have been displaced from resource rich territories," he continued, "in order to deliver those territories to corporate interests. If the FTA gets signed, the appropriation of resources and lands can be legalized by an apparently democratically elected body of legislators, who, in fact, got into office through the support of death squads."

However, The Wall Street Journal, in an editorial attacking Obama's stance on the FTA, seemingly overlooked the Colombia's widespread corruption and supported its violent security forces and Uribe's disastrous economic policy.

"If Colombia hopes to keep spending on judicial improvements and better law enforcement, it needs an expanding economy", said the editorial. "Since Uribe took office in 2002, violence has been substantially reduced. Mr. Obama has never explained how denying Colombians the FTA will help the country reduce violence. Maybe this is because he knows he's merely repeating union distortions."

Yet several international human rights organizations have also denounced the ongoing use of violence against Colombians by international companies.

According to MiningWatch Canada, "Where corporations have sought access to Colombia's resources - oil, coal, gold, emeralds - they have used paramilitary violence, forced displacement, massacres, and disappearance as tactics to remove populations and secure their investments."

Despite ongoing violent attacks, the indigenous people in the Cauca have for decades refused to be displaced, in what has become a courageous example for other Colombians to follow.

"They've become the center of civil resistance in the country," said Rozental. "They will face armed attacks by going out, unmasked, to face those who are attacking them.

"The indigenous movement has shown that it is the only one that has been able to face the Uribe regime, against the terror and fear, and has actually managed to push away all warring factions," he continued.

For this, they have twice won the Colombian Award for Peace. According to Rozental, Colombia's indigenous peoples have a sacred responsibility to protect life and the land.

"Indigenous people have one sacred ancestral position: the defense and promotion of life, above anything else," he said. "They resist the global neoliberal regime that has made wealth sacred precisely because life has to be protected and this system is destroying it."

Yet on Friday, the march towards Bogota was again met with a heavy police and military detachment, which refused them entry to the city of Ibague.

Rozental said that many of the movement's leaders fear more violence as the mobilization approaches Bogota.

"It's our greatest fear," he said. "We fear that it is to the advantage of the regime that actions of war and terror take place during the minga. The only beneficiaries of violence, at this stage, are the regime itself and its transnational allies."

"We are calling upon the world to protect the people of Colombia against the greatest risk and danger we're facing: the government of Colombia."

But Rozental is quick to point out that all of the actions taken by the Colombian government are backed by the US and Canadian governments, as well as transnational companies. Whether directly or indirectly linked to the rampant human rights abuses ongoing in Colombia, he believes they, too, should be held accountable.



"They know they are negotiating and signing an agreement in order to access wealth, cheaply, through the constant and systematic use of terror," he said.



"And the outcome of all this," he continued, "is that the people are massively displaced from their land."



In a press release outlining their opposition to the FTA, the ACIN made clear that they fear the passage of the FTA will only facilitate further violence and human rights abuses.



"We are not against international trade and economic relationships. But a basic condition to approve any trade agreement should be the respect of fundamental human rights, and this FTA subordinates our collective and individual human rights to the interests of investors."

TruthSeeker,

Thank you for the links to the White House pictures down below. They were great.

Er...no sweat. LOL.

I clicked post....but didn't see them....I still don't see it posted, so I got disoriented and gave up.

Anyway...I found it fascinating that there's even a dentist's office in the basement. It was interesting also to see how Jackie converted the sunroom into a school for Caroline's kindergarten class. I think the O family will be happy there, and I hope they make it truly the people's house, where it's bustling with "ordinary people" visitors and lots of fun.

rikyrah: SHRUB is busy with PARDONS while the ECONOMY lies in crisis!

Bush pardons 14, weighs more clemency requests: White House
November 25, 2008

President George W. Bush on Monday pardoned 14 people and commuted the sentences on two others, leaving the door open for more clemency measures in the two months he has left in office, the White House said.

There were no high-profile personalities among the pardoned people who had been convicted of drug, environmental, animal endangerment, tax and fraud offenses, according to a list published by the Justice Department.

It is customary for US presidents to issue a flurry of last-minute pardons in the waning weeks of their tenure.

Including Monday’s announcements, Bush has pardoned 117 people and commuted the sentences of eight others since he took office in January 2001, the White House said.

“The President carefully considered recommendations for pardons and commutations on a case-by-case basis and made his determinations,” said White House spokesman Carlton Carroll.

“He will continue to review clemency requests,” he added.

AFP

Soooo, he's busy reading CRIMINAL PROFILES/FILES while President-Elect Obama TRIES to CLEAN UP HIS ECONOMIC MESS! Humf!!

OTOH: Maybe that's what the P-E TOLD him ta work on for the NEXT 2 MONTHS.

LAME DUCK SOUNDS

ENJOY! :>) :>)

Cany you just hear the P-E saying to SHRUB - - - - I GOT THIS!! :>)

YOU just go play "LAME DUCK" for NOW! :>) "QUACK! QUACK!! :>)

GreenLady, the real shyt will be when he starts issuing pardons to everyone involved in all the corruption that has gone on for eight years.

Scooter Libby has all but been pardoned when Bush commuted his sentence.

Jerry Bremer or Paul Wolfowitz will not even be charged, let alone see jail, and they will get pardoned.

Barney the dog will get pardoned for biting reporters (although the dog probably had the right idea if he were allowed to run loose when Mrs. Greenspan was in the House).

Errbody and their mommas will get a pardon. Shyt

CPL/Rikyrah: Confession: Having been "late to this game", I admit that I don't know most of these people. Sooo, I'll be learning quite a bit in this area. :>)

THANK YOU! :>)

January 19 2009-
Abramoff, Scooter Libby, The Evil One, and everyone else involved with torture will get pardoned.

Much to His Chagrin, 'Plain Old Barack Is Gone'

Obama nourished his soul on a life of routine in Chicago, friends say. Now they hope he can find comfort in a city he has never embraced.

Sometimes we forget that it will be hard on all of them. It's a HUGE adjustment.

Amy Goyer
Posted November 24, 2008 | 05:15 PM (EST)

Why America Needs A First Grandmother


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-goyer/why-ame...

CNN is showing the monkey waiters and those bad boys are eating on the job (probably the patron's food). One put a coke bottle in his mouth and then gave it to the patron. You know they have their gloveless, monkey fingers on the plate of food they bring you and you don't know where those fingers have been (except in your food). Ewww. Bwaaaahahahaha.

Great post on Ta-nehisi Coates' blog about the cliched use of the term "Team of Rivals"

http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives...

Excerpt:

The best thing about the human brain is that it's original. None of us think the same. When thinkers amd writers refuse to employ that originality, when they opt against telling us what is particular, what is specific, what is unique about this moment in time, when they decide to go with the easiest received wisdom at hand, as opposed to deliberating, as opposed to banging their heads on the wall until they arrive at something new, than they are not writers or thinkers any more, but henchmen in the employ of propagandists. I say that as an Obama fan. Stop fucking pushing the cliches this dude is feeding you. Wake the fuck up and think for yourself. This is exactly how we got into Iraq. This isn't a damn game.

OMG!!! ROFLMAO!!! Keith Olberman is a FOOL!!!! He's watching that Turkey Chainsaw Massacre tape with Palin for the first time and giving live-time reaction!! LOL

Miranda: He really needed his MEDS 2-day! :>) :>)

He could NOT contain himself!! :>) :>) WHO could!!?? :>)

Miranda: He really needed his MEDS 2-day! :>) :>)

He could NOT contain himself!! :>) :>) WHO could!!?? :>)

Miranda: He really needed his MEDS 2-day! :>) :>)

He could NOT contain himself!! :>) :>) WHO could!!?? :>)

He hee! He's totally trippng! And showed theWKRP Cincinnati episode When Turkeys fly. Sure glad K.O. is back!

And as if that video wasn't bad enough.......a conservative group decides to put out a Thanksgiving-themed ad "Thank You Sarah Palin" with images of plump roasted turkeys...this stuff just writes itself:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/22/palin-...

Yes, I saw it on Hardball. Se's got about 400+ requests for interviews.

Wasn't the ad a farce?

400 requests for interviews?? I bet she takes that as a compliment.

Me too! I hate it when he's not there!

From TPM.com

Hotels Booked Up For Inaugural -- In West Virginia

Here's a further sign of just how many people could be coming to Washington to witness Barack Obama's inauguration: The Associated Press reports that hotels are being booked up as far away as West Virginia, well beyond the range of a typical DC commute.

Actually, West Virginia is an hour south of Dulles International, and there are some who commute from Morgantown to DC (daily).

After reading the Time's piece about Valerie Jarrett, I said to myself the public image of Black women is being redeemed. After 200 years of being ho's(Jezebels), mammies, desexualized, social pariahs, and emasculators we are presented as whole women. We are complex and intelligent. I look at the women the Obama is picking and all I can do is cry.

There are indeed some amazing and accomplished Sista's in his cabinet. I'm proud as well. Very proud.

I love Michelle...

But why did Newsweek have to post a profile of her with her mouth open? Hope I am not overreacting....

It is not a bad-looking photo, but I am trying to grasp what they were trying to convey....You know Newsweek was shady last week with the article questioning if Obama is the Anti-Christ.

I just think sometimes publications "purposely" choose certain photographs for prominent Blacks that may not always be as flattering ....

I never got over Jennifer Hudson's cover of Vogue a while back....I had seen far more beautiful covers of Jennifer like the one she did for Essence around the same time.

Maybe that's why Oprah puts her own damn self on her magazine, grinning beautifully each and every month.

You know she's about to roll that neck and pop them eyes just like Joyce in accounting...

Are we just performers on a stage with our signature moves, maybe we've caricatured ourselves. It would be nice to be open to possibility and first discover, then be who we are.

Shaniqua says she's tired, and doesn't want to fight anymore.

Esp because Sheniqua has been portrayed by a Black male comedian for laughs at our expense.

So true ,TruthSeeker. A white co-worker cheers with glee on the day "I Love New York" airs When she sees me, she ask if I'm going to watch this nonsense. I told her "No, this show was created just for White women so ya'll can learn how Black women truly behave."

*****crickets, crickets*****crickets!

I don't think that comes on in Toronto...but I just watched a clip on YouTube and I think I know what you mean.

Have you ever noticed when there's a tragedy or something where black people are interviewed, we "perform" for the camera. What I mean is, the emotions, mannerisms, words....are exaggerated off the emotional scale. For example, sometimes there's a woman screaming her head off, but if you look closely, there are no tears, or emotion on her face. Or, she's doing the eye pop and neck roll as Town calls it, and I get the feeling something isn't authentic. Or, there's a guy talking and acting tough. And there's a script, because the same things - with slight variations - are always said!

It's as if we're not inside our bodies, experiencing events, but rather, we're the dispassionate eye of a camera, observing our own behaviour from afar. ...we are the camera and the director, giving instructions on how to turn the head....now, wave your arms.

It's kinda creepy.

TruthSeeker says:

I"t's as if we're not inside our bodies, experiencing events, but rather, we're the dispassionate eye of a camera, observing our own behaviour from afar."

Exactly, it's an out of body experience. The black folk who opt to play these roles feed right into the hands of the white media who still want to portray black people as nonhumans, puppets for their own naviagations and entertainment purposes. These black folks realy are self-haters.

That way, it's easy for them to stay disconnected from true reality of blacks actually inhabiting the planet!

Town, you are pure comedy but true.

At first glance I am thinking she is saying very sternly "You need to fall back"----- which all falls into the stereotypical angry black woman that the media tried to "box" her in earlier .....

But then I'm like...Naw, I'm being too critical

This cover gets the "side eye" from me

Where I work, her name is Ramona.

lol

you two are hilarious

From Home and Away, Advice for a First Lady

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/us/politics/2...

WASHINGTON — It was tough-love talk from one high-profile professional mother to another, only this hard-hitting counsel did not come in a phone call or a letter. It appeared in The Times of London this month under the headline, “My advice to Michelle Obama: Learn to Like the Back Seat.”

The pointed words came from Cherie Blair, a lawyer, mother of four and the wife of Tony Blair, the former prime minister of Britain. Brace yourself for big letdowns in your life as first lady, she warned Mrs. Obama, a lawyer, mother of two and the wife of President-elect Barack Obama.

You have to learn to take the back seat, not just in public, but in private,” advised Mrs. Blair, who writes regularly for The Times of London. “When your spouse is late to put the kids to bed, or for dinner, or your plans for the weekend are turned upside down again, you simply have to accept that he had something more important to do.”




What? Shut Up, Cherie Blair

THANK YOU. We need to tell all these 'helpful' white women to SHUT THE HELL UP! When did they ever care so much about the quality of life of a Black woman before! If she was REALLY trying to give advice she would've called. Biyatch!!!

This article kills me. Cherie Blair doesn't think that after being married to a state senator, a United States Senator and the Democratic Nominee for President, that Michelle Obama doesn't understand the demands that are made of a political wife?

Really?

No. Neither Barack nor Michelle know how to act. So it's up to [ insert know-it-all here] to teach them how to behave.

Town,

Thanks for clearing that up. ;-) Hopefully, these two will listen to people who know more than them. (yeah right)

Who cares what she thinks! This is Michelle Obama. Period. There is NO comparison. That is all.

This drivel reads like something straight out of some Holly Homemaker book from the 1950!

“When your spouse is late to put the kids to bed, or for dinner, or your plans for the weekend are turned upside down again, you simply have to accept that he had something more important to do.”What the fuck!

I'm so delighted Michelle will have some fine sistas in the White House to support her. These presumptious white folk who think they are entitled to dictate how the FLOUS is going to roll. NOT!!!

Spirit, I am convinced that the goal of these bitter Bettie's is to create an atmosphere so pessimistic and gloomy that the only smile on Michelle's face ever again, is one out of forced appearance - along with something prescribed by a doctor. They do not like to see her genuinely happy. "Why is this black woman smiling??" She's not supposed to be happy. She is supposed to have a steel wall around her at all times! Guarded! Shouldn't she be somewhere right now cussing Barack out?? Shouldn't she be unfulfilled with her entire life and on top of that not getting any?? Why is she smiling?? I swear to you, they don't want to see her smile.

The problem is that these women are bitter about what Michelle already has, so they're trying to tell her it's going to change. They're jealous, they can see how important PE's family is to him and how much he loves Michelle. What this Blair woman didn't consider is that they don't have the same husbands.

MsMartin, you are so correct. I don't think she was actually meaning to give Michelle unneeded & unsolicited advice. I think she was trying to let people know that her husband and marriage aren't shit and that her "husband" doesn't care about her or their marriage. What she really means is, "I love the Rolls Royce. Too bad I can't screw it."

They really are "projecting" a whole lot and are so caught up, don't realize how transparent it is. WE SEE THRU YOU!!!

Black Love envy is so unattractive.

spirit_55z,

I agree that "Black Love envy ", is unattractive, yet so real.

Miranda, aint gonna happen. These folks didn't see Barack or Michelle coming. They don't have the game book, and therefore, they don't know the rules.

Oh shit! check out Caly Fiorina on CNN, she's got enough makeup on to get the gig for a Barmun and Bailey Circus clown. Looks like she's got a tan too. These ladies are trying to turn brown; hmmmmm, I wonder why?

She looked like she should be on stage, singing something by Diana Ross or Gloria Gaynor at "The Birdcage".

this.is.BRUTAL

Miranda, Bwahaaaa!!! ROTFLMAO! I've been noticing the white women lately since Michelle has been getting mega newspaper and tv media coverage. They're trying to ramp up their looks. AS IF! Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Miranda, aint gonna happen. These folks didn't see Barack or Michelle coming. They don't have the game book, and therefore, they don't know the rules.


Preach

They don't want to BE US, but they sure as hell try to LOOK LIKE US.

Botox for full lips that we have naturally;

Fat injections to get J-Lo's and Kim Kardashian's asses that we already have....naturally;

Tans to cover up their whiteness.

For someone who don't like Black Folk, they sure do a whole damned lot to look LIKE US.

We must be the real standard of beauty - and not that heroin chic look that have young girls developing anorexia, bulemia or BOTH.

CPL, tell it, Sista!!

"Miranda, aint gonna happen. These folks didn't see Barack or Michelle coming. They don't have the game book, and therefore, they don't know the rules."

Co-sign.

Maybe we are looking at this all wrong, maybe they didn't realize they were in terrible marriages until they realized their husbands had more important things to do and put THEM on the back burner. Now the haters want her to have a life filled with doubt. Michelle Obama got this, they just didn't get the memo.

That was their choice. They picked a man lacking in all the desired leadership qualities - particularly discretion and MORAL leadership - by focusing primarily on political skill. They wanted the pedestal and access to power but got all the faults and lack of ________ insert whatever. They took comfort in knowing that it was the case with all of them, now here comes the Obamas. Not perfect but they've got it together. They HAD to. Now they are soooo mad they settled.

TOO BAD!!!

Sounds a little bitter...

So understated.

I read this yesterday and thought that her "advice" was a croc-o-sh!t.

For some reason, I think a lot of people find it hard to believe that Michelle is actually HAPPY. Its like a foreign concept that she could actually be happily married and secure with her life as it is and as it will be. Shouldn't she be scowling all the time and all hardcore and tough as steel?? What right does she have to just be happy and content with her life?? Something is wrong!!! Why isn't she announcing that she plans to revamp the entire office of The First Lady and will form a council to begin demanding something or another.....I don't know....I just know these people are making my azz hurt.

Co-Sign!

Michelle don't know how to act. She don't know how to mother her children or be a wife to her husband. She must be told how to act.

That is all [/snark].

Forty seven years ago the world reacted to Jackie Kennedy the same way they are reacting to Michelle Obama.

Jackie ignored them then; Michelle is ignoring them NOW.

They are hating because they have stale marriages where they have put on acts for the last forty years. Michelle and Barack are real and are REALLY into each other - and Washington can't deal with that kind of shyt - they too used to having men cheating on their wives and acting like Silda Spitzer; standing by their man BS.

GTHOH with that BS. And I actually like Cheri Blair because she called bullshyt on the Monarchy when Princess Diana died...and has been willing to call bullshyt in the British government but Tony has her on a lockdown that Michelle or Hillary would have given Barack and Bill slaps upside their heads if they even thought of shutting them up.

CPL, tell it! "Lockdown" LOL!

I wonder how Carla Bruni, Nicholas Sarkozy's wife relates to him. She's stunning!

The same way Barack and Michelle related to each other. Bruni does her own thing, Sarkozy's okay with it, and the French have embraced them both.

Shoot, Sarkozy's first wife dumped him and asked for a divorce while they were here in the states a year or so ago. The minute they got back to France, Sarkozy's office was announcing he and the First Lady had separated.

He trotted out Carla Bruni in less than six months. I give him a prop; in any other country, Sarkozy would have had to stay with his first wife or give up being President. The French don't give a shyt who their leaders screw; as long as they are getting some, it keeps their heads of state from starting wars.

If Bush was....ah...NEVER MIND. Can't Blame Laura for not wanting to screw a dumb-ass.

Thanks, CPL and gang. This is great to catch up with the rest of the world. I didn't know anything about Carla; just that she's gorgeous and appears happy.

I am deleting any thoughts or images of dubyah or Laura knocking de boots! Hee, hee!

Also Carla was a top model and had all kinds of relationship drama like sleeping with Mick Jagger when he was married to Jerry Hall, partying, drugs, what have you. She's lead a very FULL life. I actually liked her first album, too. I haven't heard any advice being given to HER by all the bitter Bettys. The only thing Carla has said about Michelle is that she can't wait to meet her!

IIRC one of her conquests was Donald Trump. God bless her for that because the mere thought of The Donald in the throes of passion makes me reach for the brain bleach.

Well he's a modelizer with inflated wealth not unlike a lot of men in that world. Few of them are really attractive and the women are willing to overlook it. Funny how the men are not. From Princess Diana on down the men want a guarantee of better looking offspring and the women want financial security. But Carla came from family wealth already. Sarkozy isn't exactly cute but he is President.

Laura said "I did my duty" now go do yours with Cheney.

Or Condi. And she didn't do a good job of screwing him because if she did, Bush would have done anything she told him.

<<<ducks and laughs>>>

you.are.so.wrong

BWA HA HA HA HA

hilarious.

absolutely hilarious.

Now, there you go...spreading rumors.

though, she did call him ' HER HUSBAND'

ugh.

That's exactly how they feel, Town! To hell with Cherie Blair & her advice! Like Nickwah quoted.....it's a croc-o-sh%t! I wish these people would just stfu!

I'm with you Justice....I am so sick of the incessant whining coming from so many corners over the FIrst Lady. Just shut the hell up already!

They have to deal with the First Lady when she and Barack do that first European trip - y'all know this.

I'm not worried. Michelle will know the arrangement of silverware she's supposed to use, and she will be elegant in the mix. These foreign leaders wives are afraid of her stature towering over their asses in Carolina Herrera and looking better than they do. Even the Queen of England knows how frumpy she will look in the presence of Michelle Obama - that's why she sending smoke signals in the form of a Cheri Blair op-ed.

Think about it - Gordon Brown's wife, Angela Merkel, the Italian PM's wife - they all know they are going to be in Michelle Obama's presence and want to tone her down before she gets to them.

Not going to happen - and Sarkozy's wife is probably the only one who will be perfectly comfortable with Michelle. I can see them strolling down the Champs-Elysees, getting their shopping on, while Barack and Sarkozy talk business. LOL

Now are you sure Michelle knows to use the actual china instead of the Chinet? You sure she knows that she's supposed to put the napkin in her lap instead of tying it around her neck like a bib?

We've got to make sure Michelle knows how to act, because we all know black women just don't know how to act out in public.

Angela Merkel is probably glad that America finally has a leader who won't give out unsolicited neck massages. Although she did talk about how good and strong Barack looked. lol

Town, WTF? neck massages? Do tell. I'm behind on all of this knowledge....gossip :-))

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTQY1Aw9zcs&feat...

During a G8 meeting, Bush strolled over to Merkel and gave her a neck massage and she shrugged him off like WTF?

I don't know what possessed him to do that to another world leader. She should have punched him or had German police bodyslam him or something.

I just wished she'd slugged Bush for that shyt. And there wouldn't have been a damned thing the SS could have done about it, either, because they were on foreign soil.

Town, Town, Town of course she does! She's been in training for this for quite a while esp since primary season. Valerie Jarrett is an actual socialite and I'm sure she's seen to it that Michelle is on par - and Barack too. It's just harder to learn all of this as an adult. They'll make sure the daughters have the proper training early on if they haven't started already.

Candidate For RNC Chair Was Member Of Whites-Only Country Club
By Greg Sargent - November 24, 2008, 12:04PM
Now here's a good way for the GOP to make the case that it hasn't been reduced to a southern regional rump party that's held hostage by intolerant crackpots: Elect as the new chairman of the Republican National Committee a southerner who just resigned a longtime membership in a whites-only country club.

Katon Dawson, the South Carolina GOP chairman, announced his candidacy for RNC chair yesterday.

And guess what: Back in September, when Dawson was first quietly laying the groundwork for his RNC run, The State newspaper reported that he resigned his membership in the nearly 80-year-old Forest Lake Club. Members told the newspaper at the time that the club's deed has a whites-only restriction and has no black members.

Dawson claimed to the paper that he'd actually been working since August to change the club's admission practices after reading about them in the press. Nonetheless, his membership could become an issue in the RNC chair race.

After all, the paper says he was a member for 12 years, so it seems like a pretty fair question to ask whether he started working to change the club's rules this summer, and then resigned, in preparation for his RNC chair candidacy.

That seems like a particularly relevant question when you recall that the case some GOPers made against Obama over his ties to Reverend Wright was that his supposed silence in the face of Wright's rantings should raise questions about Obama's patriotism.

What's more, The State said that Dawson resigned the club after it became known that the paper was getting ready to report his membership.

Either way, it's hard to see how it sends a winning message for the GOP to pick as its chief strategist and public face someone who was a member of a club where the first African American president in history apparently need not apply. Ah, those good old Repubs.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com...

Where is Republican2008? Sill proud to be a Black Republican?

Karmi is still here being the fly in the soup!

At least he's dedicated...to bugging us by being a bonified TROLL.

It left after we provided all those examples of what the Democrats did for Black People, because he had no COMEBACK.

CPL, Hee,hee! And It has no humility either. The best thing we can do for ourselves is to say, "I dont know," when we don't know. It wille back with some cut and paste bull shit!

It better not bring another knife to this gunfight, Spirit, cause it made me tired and grumpy already. LOL

So it took press reports for him to realize he belonged to an all-white country club? He couldn't look around the room and say hey, "the only Blacks here are the waiters and kitchen staff, this isn't cool." He couldn't think of ONE Black businessperson or leader in his community who would be a good addition to the club?

Bullsh!t.

As a Columbia native a little history needs to be brought into play. Forest Lake CC has no Black or Jewish members. The entire town is (of Forest Acres) subterfuge intent to avoid integration. When my dad became an adminstrator in the high school located there he had a police escort thru the town every morning for six months. No black man other than maintenance at the club had any reason to be there prior to 6:30 in the morning was the ruling logic.

Come to think of it, my sister played in a concert there once, and came damn close to having to be restrained. As I remember it , an inebriated women called her a "talented little colored gal" and she never realized how close she came to getting a bow cracked over her head. i digress, there have been quite a few prominent AA's and Jews that have inquired about membership d have been flatly denied because of "restrictive covenants" including the Commanding Officer at Fort Jackson and the CEO of IBM/SC. Dude is lying thru his teeth. Any person with half a brain knows the deal with Forest Acres CC. The State did an expose on them a long time ago...

When is South Carolina going to join the 21st Century?

Just asking....

The 12th of never girl.

rorysmomma: -er, -um Did you REQUEST this??

Twelfth Of Never (Johnnie Mathis)

ENJOY!! :>) :>)

As usual Green Lady you are on it.

rorysmomma: LOL! :>)

It is so very beautiful there and is replete with Black History. But they did seem to be in some sort of weird, twilight zone time warp. There was a conspicuous absence of Black professionals in Charleston when I was there. Maybe it was the neighborhood I was in or something, but the Blacks were largely service professionals. I've met people who left because they felt they couldn't get ahead there. I think a big part of the solution is to bust the books. I can't wait to go back there.

"He couldn't look around the room and say hey, "the only Blacks here are the waiters and kitchen staff".....

To be fair, a lot of them think that actually counts as proof of its diversity.

You're right. What was I thinking?

An Old Hometown Mentor, Still at Obama’s Side

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/us/politics/2...

About Valerie Jarrett

I love it! Good for Ms. Jarrett!!

Puhleeze! Halperin, go cry me a fucking river! Yeah, and Jed has this video too.

T.

KO just clowned Halperin as one of tonight's Worst Persons

He's a HATER!

Who is Mark Halperin? (wink)

HE don't know who Mark Halperin is cause if he did, he wouldn't have wrote that shyt.

In addition to the Cabinet appointments of Eric Holder and Susan Rice (so far), President-Elect Obama has also appointed Blacks to very senior, West Wing positions within the White House. Regardless of whether they become household names, these Black women will be RUNNING THE WHITE HOUSE and will have the President's ear:

Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor
Melody Barnes, Chair of the Domestic Policy Council
Desiree Rogers, Social Secretary
Mona Sutphen, Deputy Chief of Staff

The only way I could be more pleased is if Obama had named that fine Jamal Simmons as his White House Spokesman ;)

Ain't PE Obama lucky?

T.

He's lucky as hell to be surrounded by these women including his wife. Oh yeah!

And y'all know if any female come up in the White House trying to sniff around Obama, these sistas will collectively break open the cans of Whip-Azz and send her skank butt packing with a quickness you wouldn't believe.

Word, CPL. This is where Silda and Dina McGreevy, can take a few lessons. They didn't have their P.S. on board "Peep Support."

Dina McGreevey needed somebody to say "Psst Dina, why is your husband hiring dude at $100K with limited experience? Ya think he's being blackmailed or something? Keep your eye on him."

I think in Dina McGreevey's case, it wouldn't have mattered. Ol' JimBoy was gay as all get out, and only came out of that closet when one of his lovers on his payroll was about to expose him.

Silda probably thought she had nothing to worry about with Eliot; now she's probably wondering if she ever knew him.

Word, CPL. This is where Silda and Dina McGreevy, can take a few lessons.


Now you're talking!

LOL

And you know it, CPL.

They are Michelle's eyes..LOL