Jack & Jill Politics

rikyrah: Annnnnnd, for the "kids":

Now, An Inaugural Concert for the Kids

Michelle Obama hosts a children's concert honoring military families at the Verizon Center in D.C. Monday night.

Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers are among the entertainers.

Go Mrs. FIRST LADY 2 B!! :>) :>)

FYI, if all goes well with logistical handoffs, our own CPL should be attending this event monday night! we roll deep yall!

Baratunde: WOW!! :>) :>) CPL: U JES' DO THIS!! :>) :>)

PROUD OF YOU!!! :>) :>) Whoooo! Hoooo! :>) :>)

JJP in DC!! And the Crowd Goes Wild

THANK U'ALL!!! :>) :>)


P.S. I did NOT receive a "notification" from "DISCUS" that your "reply" had been made. I believe that I missed another one also. Hmmmmm.? Has anyone else had this "issue?" :>)

2-morrow, I will check with my ISP! THANK YOU!! :>)

rikyrah: Exclusive: Aides map first 100 hours

Vans will be poised at the Capitol to take a few top aides of Barack Obama's to their new offices at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. as soon as he is sworn in, transition aides told Politico.

About 20 senior officials have had their paperwork cleared to enter the White House complex on Tuesday. Some will attend a traditional lunch with the new president in the Capitol, then get to work while the inaugural parade is under way.

The quick start on Tuesday is indicative of the months of planning that Obama’s transition team has put into preparing for his opening days in office.

Officials say on Wednesday, which is being referred to as “Day 1,” he is scheduled to meet with his economic team to discuss the latest calibration of his stimulus package, which is likely to be about $900 billion by the time it reaches his desk, probably in mid-February.

Obama will also meet Wednesday with his national security team to discuss “next steps in Iraq and Afghanistan,” an aide said.

On the Middle East, “You’ll see him act quickly,” incoming senior adviser David Axelrod told John King on the debut edition of CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“The president- elect has said repeatedly that he intends to engage early and aggressively with diplomacy all over the world and using the men and women, the professionals who are in place, who are great, and, where appropriate, special envoys,” Axelrod said.

Obama also plans a flurry of executive orders, including some on Wednesday. These orders are a way presidents can force change in government without having to go through Congress.

The early Obama orders are likely to range from the mundane to the profound – from routine bureaucratic proclamations about continuity of government, to a declaration calling to begin the closing of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

News stories have said the Guantanamo Bay executive order would come on Obama’s first full day in office, but an aide said it might be a day or two later. Over his first several days in office, he plans a series of orders that will kick off his era of change.

Robert Gibbs, the incoming White House press secretary, suggested on “Fox News Sunday” that Obama plans early steps toward his top agenda item of tighter regulation of the financial sector.

“We have to do things differently, in a more transparent way,” Gibbs said. “We have to get ourselves out of this mess, and only by demanding more of the financial institutions will we be able to do that.”

Sopunds ta me as IFFF he WILL B READY on DAY 1!! - January 20. 2009!!
12:05 PM EST] :>) :>)

Mr. President-Elect Obama! 44th PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!! President Barack Obama Song - "Look at Me Now" :>)

ENJOY! :>) :>)

rikyrah: LAWD, I hope that this is NOT a duplicate. Tried "reading through all the threads. SORRY!

Lincoln Memorial Inauguration Concert: Info, Updates (AUDIO) (PHOTOS)

***CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES ...

***UPDATE 5:20PM***

After Obama's speech, Springsteen and Pete Seeger did an encore, reports the New York Times:

Bruce Springsteen recently came back onstage, joined by 89-year-old folk singer Pete Seeger and a choir (the same one?), for a version of "This Land Is Your Land."


The Boss has played the song -- written by another folk legend, Woody Guthrie - in live shows before.

***UPDATE 4:46PM***
Here is an excerpt from Obama's speech at the Lincoln Memorial:

"And yet, as I stand here tonight, what gives me the greatest hope of all is not the stone and marble that surrounds us today, but what fills the spaces in between. It is you - Americans of every race and region and station who came here because you believe in what this country can be and because you want to help us get there."

Read the full text of the speech here.

***UPDATE 3:46PM*** The concert has attracted over the expected 500,000 people and is being nicknamed Obama-Stock:

The atmosphere was festive enough for at least one person to dub it "Obama-stock."
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Folks came from all over the Washington region and from South Carolina, California and Atlanta; from York, Maine, and Wayland, Mass.; and from a tiny city in Alaska known by the name "North Pole." Although some said they were attending the "We Are One" concert as a less-onerous way to catch their piece of history, many said they planned to bundle up again and join the even-larger throngs expected for Tuesday's swearing-in and inaugural parade.


One of the highlights of Obama's Inauguration is the star-studded concert being held today at the Lincoln Memorial. The event is packed with celebrity guests and world-renowned musicians. Obama will give remarks amidst the festivities at 4pm. You can listen to the event live here.

The AP describes the scene:

A concert is under way on the National Mall in Washington, marking the start of four days of inaugural celebrations.


The crowd gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial erupted in cheers when President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, arrived, walking down the steps of the memorial.

Performers including U2, Beyonce and Bruce Springsteen are on the bill. Obama is expected to offer welcoming remarks.

The crowd, expected to reach perhaps a half-million, gathered in temperatures above the freezing mark. It was a welcome relief from the frigid weather that had gripped the nation's capital.

The spectators filled the area in front of the Lincoln Memorial, and extended along the mall on both sides of the reflecting pool.

Check out the list of guests and artists below (from HBO, which is broadcasting the event - watch it here):

Check out photos from the concert in the slideshow below.
[THIS is the part that I was trying to get to.] :>)

I know that VIDS abound!! :>)

rikyrah: Mr. P-EO continues to DEMONSTRATE that he is a ONE MAN ECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGE!

Media execs prep for 'news emergency'

Media executives must have been paying attention last week when President Bush declared a state of emergency for Tuesday's inaugural.

CNN's Washington bureau chief David Bohrman, for one, issued a "news emergency" of his own.

While Bush freed up federal funds, Bohrman made available satellite phones in the event of rolling cell phone blackouts. There will be cots and air mattresses for staffers camping out in the newsroom on Monday night, along with shower arrangements at a nearby health club. Staffers will be treated to a pancake breakfast prior to braving the bitter cold and bulging crowds.

"It's the biggest event any of us have ever had to cover," Bohrman said.

While there have been several massive Obama events this past year — Berlin, Denver, and Chicago's Grant Park — the inaugural is proving to be the most complicated. Covering it requires dealing with a vast number of moving parts, among them the challenges for camera crews of literally moving around to cover the sprawling event. Much of Washington will resemble an occupied city, complete with closed streets, checkpoints, and a 40,000-plus security force.

Crowd size is the biggest variable for news executives, since coverage limitations increase as the number of onlookers grows: one million attendees present a certain set of challenges; two million, another. Those directing coverage will be watching in the days leading up for indications of how many people might show up, and start planning accordingly. An extra million people on Tuesday significantly increases gridlock and cuts down on the ability to move television correspondents, camera operators, newspaper reporters, photographers and bloggers. [YAAAA!]

Even seasoned professionals, accustomed to the crowds and pomp and circumstance of inaugurals past, express disbelief at the sheer crush of attention surrounding the moment Barack Obama plants his right hand on the Bible.

Joe Keenan, director of the Senate Daily Press Gallery, said that credentials have now been issued to print reporters in just about every nation, from Slovenia to Nigeria, Lebanon to Gabon.

"I talked to several European reporters at the conventions, and Obama is a bigger deal there than here," Keenan said, noting that the entire continent will be represented, down to the daily "Luxemburger Wort."

So in addition to pushing through the crowd, U.S. TV outlets will have to out-flank their foreign colleagues for ideal viewing positions. Being an inaugural, which is tailor-made for hours of television coverage, it's essential to be in the right place at the right time.

THERE IS MORE.

Mr. President-Elect Obama - - Media Mania!

And the Crowd Goes Wild :>) :>)

Okay, who agrees that he dyed his hair for the inauguration? :-)

bigassbelle. Me.

But my view is a little different. I believe during the election cycle folks were griping that he looked too young and that he wasn't old enough blah blah he got hooked up with some dye because his looks was becoming too much of a distraction so he made the decision to balance the scale a bit.

Now that he is elected . . . . So I agree with you but based on a different perspective.

All you have to do is compare the pics of him from that week during the election cycle when he became completely gray almost over night to the last week or so.

disagree

saw up close pictures and it appears to be the same

BAB: Wellllll! Ima look real closely at HIM- - - --er, -ummmmm HIS HEAD!! :>) :>)

Good post by Andrew Sullivan @ the Atlantic.

An Old Soul

Rev. Wright Speaks At Howard University

A year after then-candidate Barack Obama distanced himself from his controversial longtime pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright thrilled hundreds of churchgoers this morning in Washington, giving a sermon holding up Obama as a spiritual symbol of possibility.
People waited two hours to hear Wright preach the Sunday service at Howard University's Crampton Auditorium, a high-profile platform for clergy, black clergy in particular. Wright has preached the service, run by the school's Rankin Chapel, on the Sunday before Martin Luther King Day for the past five years and was booked months before the election, school officials said.

Howard students, alumnae and notables such as opera singer Jessye Norman and Morehouse College President Robert Michael Franklin Jr. attended the service, which overflowed into two other buildings. They came to see a man whose relationship with Obama became explosive, both among those who saw his words as racist and anti-American rhetoric and those livid with Obama for distancing himself from someone they saw as simply speaking truths about racism and war.
Wright was nothing but positive and conciliatory today, rousing churchgoers again and again to their feet with a sermon about what he called the Bible's message of self-reliance and encouragement.

Full Story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...

A YouTube of this sermon available?

Coming soon to a theater near you.

Has the nausea abated?

Yes, it has.

Thanks.

spirit: It will probably "LOOP" CONTINUOUSLY! :>)

You know it. I'd love to see view a video of the sermon, though.

C-Span is airing an Howard U event tommorow. Maybe this is it? You can check their website.

Sepia: Thank you very much! :>)

Since i have 2 Rev. Dr. MLK, Jr. events, I hope that it will be available on you tube! :>)

Again, thank you! :>) :>)

spirit: Me 2! :>)

Yea Miranda...I heard he was great. I had friends who attended.

It sounds like he ripped it up!

good for him.

NBC, MSNBC are representin' for the Inauguration.

Dateline NBC has a special 2 hour special on talking about the history of the moment, from an African American experience and for the world. The segment on now is about the African American experience in America.

The segment before was on the photographer fro Obama, now the official White House photographer.

here are some of his photos: http://www.msnbc.com/modules/interactive.aspx?t...

Okay,

I've been watcing stuff all day, and Dateline is making me misty-eyed. I don't know if I'll make it through Tuesday.

Damn you Dateline!! All I need now is for them to bring back Stone Phillips and I'm in heaven.

I am watching CNN....there are plenty of black folk!!!

Toobin was on CNN saying that the crowd may not be as big as expected because of the stories on security issues and crowd size.

Does anyone think he's right?

Well, in New Orleans, people always complained that the crowds were too much during Mardi Gras, but that never stopped people from coming every year, even after Katrina. So if people can come to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, with windows still blown out, homes still boarded up, people still not returned to N'awlins, then I think that by Monday, most people witll have come to Washington, and Tuesday will be a beast.

Here's hoping Toobin is wrong!!!

Welll, Walt Minnick (our new democratic representative from this red state), his wife, A.K., is 'reporting' for New West - Boise. Now, they're hyped beyond belief, but she said yesterday D.C. was filling up.

My hometown is right at the tip of what is the Black Belt in Alabama. The schools are primarily segregated save for a few schools along that western part of Alabama....and one of the schools that is actually predominately white...will be taking a busload of kids to the inauguration. I say that to say this.....if a busload of people from Pickens County Alabama, mostly white, will be converging on DC for the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama, then let there be no DOUBT that there will be the projected number, if not MORE than anticipated in DC this Tuesday.

Agreed...I know people out here in Brooklyn who are heading down tonight! People are coming from all over the world. I have family from the Caribbean, Canada and the UK who are there already! I live in Brooklyn and I am still spinning around.

I am determined to go even if it will be cold. Intend to hop on the subway at 4 a.m. in the morning to make sure I get my place in line.

My hubby said it is too cold, the lines will be too long blah blah blah . . . . I understand all that but this is HISTORY. i want to be there and I want to feel the energy of the people. I have to be there. So I think we will have over 1.5 million people easy.

Yea, a few people who were going with me opted out due to the weather and long lines and I am like....hello this is history.

Val, I know that's right. My daughter says the energy in DC is off the chart and beyond, and the Inauguration has taken place yet.

I expect to ride the wave when I arrive next weekend.

Am I the only one who hopes they play "In Da Club" at one of the inaugural balls?

Umm.....yea?

I was joking.

Well, for me..... it would really set it off if they played "One Nation Under a Groove"...LOL

Oh yea!!!!!

Oooh! Yes or how 'bout "Flashlight"! They could do the Electric Slide to both of those!

And I think Michelle should be introduced and walk out on "The Men All Pause"

Michelle for Barack

KIILLIG ME SOFTLY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mpqXu0z3wU

And Barack should come out Big Daddy Kane's "Smooth Operator".

Man, the next time the Obamas have a party, they need to hire us as the DJs! LOL!

He should come out to "So Fresh So Clean"

Oh, I got it!!! This is the one Barack needs to come out on!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULoC0sH04wY&feat...

I can't pull it up. What is it?

"I'm Bad" LL COOL J.

Thanks. This would be perfect!

What should Joe B. come out to?

Guuurllll, you know Barack would kill this song. He'd better wear that big chain too! LOL!

Bustin Loose!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wevVoB9IdFg

HA! Now THAT would set it off!

Now that I think will happen. HAH!

lol now that would be hysterical. LOL

LOL

It would be funny but I don't think they should do it. lol

I guess you're right. I just wanna see Joe Biden throw his hands up in the air and wave 'em like he just don't care.

Go head, go head! ooh,ooh!

Can't you just see Joe B. doing the running man?

Yea, I wanna see Joe Biden dance to T-Pain....ya know some of that snap dancin'...lol. Classic.

Yeah, cause Jo BI Cool like dat!

http://www.enidlawsongallery.co.uk/images/Mick/...

RAOTFLMAO. Sepia . . . I fell of the floor on that one.

Whooo Hoooooo!!!

SBF Seeking Her Own Barack

http://www.theroot.com/views/sbf-seeking-her-ow...

Will Barack make make men do better? Will he make women want Better?
Is Barack the new measurement? And if brothers don't step up will sisters be more open to dating other races?

Oh come on...I would love myself a Barack too but generalizing all brothers is simply foul. I know how I feel when I am labeled, generalized and misrepresented as a black woman and how much that makes me upset.

And, can black women stop threatening to stop "settling" for certain types of black men and start doing it. If dating other races is on one's mind then go do it....lol.

Ayone catch MSNBC's documentary "Yes We Can...Countdown to Nov 4th" documentary? It's pretty interesting.

Im watching it too. Which reminds me, where the heck is Alan Keyes? He's a whole other level of crazy. Haven't seen him in a minute.

he needs to stay exactly where he is. lol

lol

Lincoln Memorial Pics

Whoever arranged this event did a slam dunk job. Repeat on HBO @ 6P CST

Did anyone else here catch this weekend's This American Life. It was, of course, about Obama and our expectations and reflections about what his election means. The last segment had some amazing clips from interviews with people all over the country, people who voted for him and even those who didn't. I was especially moved by this one white man who had worked undercover to take down the KKK. He commented (my paraphrase) that he felt as if he had been working for the Obama campaign since the 1930s... really touching. And the stories about the old folks and freedom fighters who are going to D.C. despite back problems and doctor's warnings and no hotel rooms reserved. This is such an amazing time, y'all.

In any case, This American Life is free on iTunes and at their home site: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/

If I can ask the obvious - if white hatred is racism, wouldn't black hatred be the same?

Can anyone say:

"Uncle Ruckus" no relation

You can't hate someone you don't love. If whites hate blacks and blacks hate whites, then we all love each other.

James Baldwin breaks it down.

Sometime after Wednesday, I'll break out my James Baldwin books, along with some other reading materials.

blaxk hatred towards whites comes more from a place of resentment than anyhting else. Its basically a reactionary emotion.

Miranda: LOL! :>)

HOWEVA: YOU know where the "BAD CHAIR" is! :>)

***pointing'**** Annnnnnnd, ***shakin' my head****

Annnnnd ***laughin' ******

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!

Miranda, You're killing me!

BWA HAAAAAAAAA!!!! Stop it, Miranda. In the NAUGHTY CORNER YOU GO!

RAOTFL

Miranda,

You are somethin' else, girl!

Geez, Karmi!

You're soo bitter! It's so unbecoming. Get a grip.

And we now have ‘Segregated Bitter’?!?!

Put your hands in the air and back away from the keyboard.

In the name of BLACKNESS!!

Please...Please!! What about spew warnings?

Hee,hee,hee!

LOL!

lol where do you find these clips? lol

Those are your made-up ideas. You concocted them in your head. You must love being mean? Try opening your mind sometimes. It won't hurt much.

Won't hurt much? KARMI's walking around with his HEAD in his Hand.

No......his head is somewhere else.....see pic above.

SAw it! BHA HAAAAAAA!

lol

Karmi, are you in DC to witness the biggest event of the 21st Century?

PLEASE NOTE:

THE 2009 DC PRESIDENTIAL INAGURATION IS A TRASH FREE ZONE, PLEASE DEPOSIT ALL EXPLODING HEADS IN THEIR PROPER RECEPTACLE.

It's also a prostitution free zone. I saw the funniest Twitter comment about not finding David Vitter there - or something.

What a HOOT!

Karmi - why the obsession?

How are you by the way. What's going on in your world? How is your family?

Oh, we now have ‘Segregated Obsession’? ;-)

I’m fine…thanks. Many blessings to You and Yours…

Are you in DC for the inauguration? If so, do you have tickets? My hubby is complaining because it is COLD and I will be hopping the subway trains by myself because I refuse to miss this event (even with the weather). If you are local and you don' t have a ticket, I will give you the one my husband isn't using. You may enjoy the experience.

Let me know.

No thanks. I have no interest in attending an event for someone who spent 20-years as a member of a racist church.

Omg...you are a parrot....you just repeat what you hear and just repeat it over and over and over again...my god.

I went to your site to read what you wrote. I have a degree in religious studies, masters in theology - pastoral ministry. It seems pretty obvious to me you don't know or understand what 'liberation theology' is about, specifically 'black liberation theology.' Read some Leonardo Boff or Jon Sobrino, then branch out.

As for using Wikipedia and Wikiquote - I'd suggest other sources.

that is too bad. Especially since your reasoning is based on a myth. The church is not racist in any way (95% white congregation) but you already know that.

Okay Karmi - I will be online for another hour or so. Let me know if you change your mind regarding the ticket. If you are not local, you are welcome to stay at my house (plenty of room - 7 bedrooms) as long as you don't mind three 8 year olds and a 4 year old.

Later.

TUCC is a predominantly black church.

Anyway, enjoy the event, and thanks for asking!

Karmi - UCC is a predominantly white church. Now, that particular church is in a black community so that local church had a black congregation. But I won't argue with you because you know that your reasoning on this is flawed.

It is okay to simply not like Obama. You don't need to make up stuff. Yes, I will enjoy the event.

Are you participating in the National Day of Service tomorrow? At least consider doing some community service.

Blessings.

Val, thanks for engaging him. Patience is a virtue.

From today's episode of Meet The Press:

MR. GREGORY: I want to talk about unique leadership test for this president, and that's with the African-American community. There was some discussion about this and your role over the course of the campaign as reported in The Atlantic magazine in its new issue. And let's put it up on the screen and go through it. "Last February, ... Tavis Smiley held his annual State of the Black Union forum in New Orleans. For the second year in a row, Obama declined to attend. ... Smiley was angry about the slight and criticized Obama openly. The backlash against Smiley was intense. ... The Smiley backlash was evidence to Obama's inner circle that, in the words of one adviser, `Barack became untouchable in the community.' ... `Tavis Smiley was the object lesson for everyone,' says Anita Dunn, a senior campaign strategist." The article goes on to explain the campaign's strategy with regard to this issue. "Obama did not have to ... pander to black leaders; he did not have to target specific messages at the black community with the attendant risk of exacerbating economic tension between blacks and whites. He did not have to bring up race. And that was key, because [internal Obama] polling confirmed that culturally anxious whites were willing to vote for a black candidate so long as they did not" mediate--"meditate," rather, "on the candidate's blackness. Obama was able to credential himself as an African American without engaging in overt racial politics."

Tavis, do you think that this president has a unique obligation to specifically target issues and problems in the black community?

MR. SMILEY: That's a good question. I don't think he has more of a responsibility, but he certainly has a moral responsibility given that African-Americans are disproportionately impacted by so many of the issues that he's going to be grappling with in this administration starting a couple of days from now. That said, this campaign was run strategically, strategically, David, brilliant on this notion of, how might we put it, reducing white suspicion and playing up black solidarity, or sort of taking advantage of black solidarity. It was a brilliant strategy for running and winning this election. I'm not so sure that you can govern that way. You, you, you can't run a country by trying to dance around, avoid dealing with issues where there are clearly racial and economic disparities. So the strategy for the campaign is one thing; running the government, government is, is another thing. And I think ultimately when this adviser, whoever this person is, suggests that I was the object lesson and that Barack Obama was--or he is untouchable in the black community, I don't even think the black community likes that kind of language. Because untouchable to me is, is equivalent to unaccountable, and I don't think anybody, blacks or anybody else, wants a president right now who is unaccountable. Everywhere you look you hear the word accountable...

The article in The Atlantic David Gregory referenced:

Race Over?
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901/obama-race

Since Tavis is so into "accountability," perhaps he can give us an explanation on how Hillary & Bill Clinton "took advantage" of black solidarity by marching into black churches and telling us she won't noways tired, and telling us the GOP put us on a plantation (and we know what she means).

And then he can explain how Hillary took advantage of white solidarity by promising to be for the hard working Americans, the WHITE Americans.

Let's get some accountability on that, Tav.

I really believe something is mentally wrong with Tavis at this point. He's had a breakdown and is masking it.

i read one of his books and he described being beaten by his stepfather mercilessly as a child--once to the point of hospitalisation. i'm not certain that he ever recovered from that. i think the severe abuse, coupled with his deep roots in 'holiness' churches, warped him.

He was always a jacka*s. He just hid it.

Where were you when I needed you, Val?? Back in the day when lots of folks was all on Tavis' tip, I was saying "naw, I'll pass on that."

I almost lost a friend over Tavis and his BS. Not only his ideas about stuff but his style of speech. I swear, I can't stand to hear him say "Lemme ask you this, right quick!" AAuugghhhh....

Plus, he takes about 20 minutes to get to the damn question.

For Realz, Town.

That Bitch pimped race like a high price whore.

And how Hillary i shamefully invoked the assasination of Bobby Kennedy during the primaries at a time when white racist are rearing their ugly heads

Then she pulled some Harriet Tubman out of the bucket at the DNC.

Tavis.........<<<<<CRICKETS<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Lawd, are you talking about the older black lady with that 'do rag' on her head? STRAIGHT OUTTA CENTRAL CASTING.

"We need a Harriet Tubman look-alike. Even better if her name is "Beulah, or Ida Mae"

"I'm straight up talking about Harriet Tubman, slave and freedom fighter

The dogs are barking, just keep going"
By guest author Anthony Painter in Denver

Hillary employed the tale of the slave liberator, Harriet Tubman, to characterise the journey that her supporters, who still display a curious reluctance to move their support to Senator Obama, need to take over the coming weeks.

Tubman would have some very simple advice for those she was liberating. If you hear dogs, keep going. If you see torches in the woods, just keep going. If they shout at you, keep going. Don’t ever stop, just keep going.

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/openhouse/2008/0...

AMEN!

I'm too through with Tavis and Bill Cosby for that matter. They have become the idiot uncles that the white media bring out for their own purpose. At least Clarence Thomas doesn't give interviews.

The problem with Bill Cosby is he's calling out black trash behavior but he's not calling out all his rich buddies who got rich by exploiting black trash behavior. If you're going to call out Tykeisha and Nam'Ron, you also need to call out the Bob Johnsons who made their millions exploiting Tykeisha and Nam'Ron. And also call out Jerry Springer and Maury Povich for exploiting them, too.

Tavis thinks he's THE KING MAKER (TM) and GATE KEEPER FOR BLACK AMERICA and that Obama would have to literally kiss his ass to win, and Obama dusted him off his shoulders like dandruff and kept it moving. Obviously the implication is if you don't need to kiss the middleman's ass, the middleman is irrelevant. Tavis just found out he's irrelevant and so he's going to call for Obama's head under the pretense of "accountability." And like I said before, when people (Tom Joyner listeners) demanded some accountability from Tavis, he ran away like a black man running from a Palin rally.

Town: U jes' SPEAK TRUTH! :>) :>)

Re: Mr. "Travesty Smile -n- Stab": I just saw MTP. His "LEVEL of ENVY" is sooo HIGH annnnnnnd disconcerting!!

I have YET to hear him start with "Mr. President-Elect Obama!" Just calls him "Mr. Obama" with that distancing, monotone voice!" AARRGG!!!!

He also says Mr. President-Elect Obama's NAME VERY, VERY QUICKLY - so as NOT ta even have it touch his vocal cords/tongue/lips!!
AAAAAArrrrggg!!

I have never heard Mr. P-E Obama's worst opponent or critic refuse to ACKNOWLEDGE his TITLE!!! TRIPLE AAARRRGGGG!

"Travesty Smile -n- Stab" is the LOWEST CASE/EXAMPLE of "HATA ENVY!!" HE IS PITIFUL!!!

Annnnnnd, it is patently obvious that, in his profession, he doesn't see himself as one who SHOULD be held ACCOUNTABLE. Why, he's the COMMENTATOR!! He "commentates" on people - - - NOT people on him. Soooo, he collapsed under the "pressure" of being HELD ACCOUNTABLE for his "ENVY!" IMHO.

Did I say that "TRAVESTY SMILE -n- STAB" is PITIFUL!!??? GOOD!!!

Break it down, Town! Break. It. Down.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You nailed it Town. Thank you for expressing so articulately what I couldn't quite put my finger on. There is something askew about both of them that leaves a bad taste.

Ahhhh - don't compare Tavis with Bill Cosby.


Completely different. Tavis is an as*hole. Bill is nothing like Tavis.

Agree. Bill Cosby is a trailbalzer and an American ICON- His presence on the media scene is groundbreaking.

Let's remember he TV series "I Spy" wth Robert Culp and "The Cosby Show." GROUNDBREAKING for a Black man, women, children, for Black families.

We don't know all of what he went through to get there, but I have a sense it's not what Tavis Smiley is doing.

Fellow JJPers are right. Tavis is sooooo IRRELEVANT!

Say what you will about Tavis, but Bill Cosby is in a League of his own.

Maybe not, but they both irk me for the same reasons. They both have chips on their shoulders, come off preachy, and seem to think they are authorities on black America. They both deliver their message/critique in less than a positive and inspiring way.

But, Bill does have substance and Tavis doesn't.

I agree. Bill has been putting his money in the community for YEARS. Tavis only cares about selling himself and his books.

Word Up! Sepia.

I am glad that Obama felt and understood that he is not the African American President but the President of the United States because that means he is accountable to all and responsible to all not just his people.

I have a problem with the Rockefeller drug laws of NYC but that is David Patterson's job to remove them not the Presidents thats why there is seperation .

Tavis is an idiot and he can go straight to H. E. double hockey sticks.

A Washington Post article on First Lady Style and Michelle Obama, nice read.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...

lousy comments being posted though.

"Oooh I love when Obama bites his bottom lip. That Sh*t is sexy. Just like when LL licks his lips."

This is why I come to JJP.

Yesterday I spent hours in the company of about 15 adult (29-40 year olds) African Americans. I wanted to discuss politics, Obama, the inauguration, books, African Americans, etc., etc. ; but was unable to engage anyone into any deep, intellectual, intelligent, conversation. Yet, when a woman uttered those words a 30 minute conversation ensued. A highly perverted conversation I might add.

I wish JJP had a book club.

Does anyone know of a good online book club?

LOL, I couldn't tell if you approved of the comment at first or not...! I've been prone to make and enjoy a few of those superficial comments about the Big O myself, but I know how you feel... there's a time and a place for everything.

I'm a member of Goodreads and they have great online discussions. But hey, why not start an online book club here at JJP! I'd participate :)

I'd participate too

Me too! We have to be able to mix critical thought with straight up triflin'ess though...

Now, I can hang with the mix.

LMAO!!!!! Hey.......we're nothing if not versatile...LOL

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