Jack & Jill Politics

“I believe that George W. Bush hates black people. Through secret government machinations, he caused Hurricane Katrina to form and aimed it at New Orleans on purpose, just so he could wipe out lots of poor blacks. I also believe that before the hurricane hit, he snuck into New Orleans and stole the keys to every school bus in the city to make evacuation of poor people impossible” (Janet M. Stroble. (2006, April 12). Now I Believe. http://www.military.com/. Retrieved November 26, 2008, from http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,94064,0...).

Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

Inaugurate my love http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009...

I'm looking for a clip. Monday, January 12, 2009. Hardball. The segments with the Dark Sith and Michelle Bernard.

any links would be helpful.

**spits juice out** LOL!! I watched that episode, lol and said the same thing. Ford is a master of the dark arts. He's a phony bologna.

OOOOO. love this photo!!....

I loved seeing America's 'royalty' pass the baton...to a man that represent alltheir values and convictions and principles.

This was a moving event for me...beyond what words can express. Caroline & Teddy..doing for Barack what they NEVER did for any other politician...that is what made it REAL

PR push may save Geithner
By JOHN BRESNAHAN & MARTIN KADY II | 1/13/09 8:10 PM EST

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17422...

The new face of America

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17276...

I love the new faces, and looking forward to reading Gwen Iffil's book.

"But never in the nearly 400-year history of this country has an African-American exercised ultimate authority over the important, daily affairs of the nation."

OK, CHILLS.

I'm also interested in reading her take on these folk, too.

I belong to a book club. We're going to discuss Gwen's Book in Febuary.

For some reason, I can't read Politico.

because, during the campaign, if you read a steady diet of it, your blood pressure was rising.

Yes!!

Which is a barometer for how much store we should put into what they write during the next 4 years.

Know that they go with conventional and popular political wisdom...and that we are forever outside of the mainstream of that mindset.

Read them..but don't discount your own analysis...caused they are still very very very politically challenged and cater to polls.

They write what is popular not right.

Anyone think HRC will make those concessions about disclosures of pledges and donations to CGI and the foundation? Vitter asked for quarterly disclosures. Lugar asked for immediate disclosures for more than a $50 K pledge.

She kept on being obtuse and repeating passthrough when talking about CGI? Is this why she looks so tired! She's been sleepless that Bill wont concede and she is seeing her chance slip through her fingers...

Kerry tried to help her out. But it was seriously softball here based on the abbreviated recap I saw on CSPAN. Especially since Richardson recused himself for a problematic $100,000. The double standard is astonishing. I think the Republicans have lost any spirit and are beaten or something because the questioning was WEAK.

TRIANGULATION!!

Lugar was right..as long as she is SOS..CGI should not accept any money from foreign countries.

End of story.

Obfuscate, gyrate, mislead all she can but that is the bottom line.

I agree with Lugar

Rachel Maddow has summed up brilliantly what I feel about our national security and defense apparatus under Barack Obama.

I don't trust Hillary Clinton.

But she put it down today. And she's a superstar. The State Department's role in foreign affairs is going to be more high profile than it has been since, oh, I don't know.

She's trying to make history. She's not going to mess up.

Now excuse me while I go throw up.

Well I hope based on her 'starpower' she can bring it better than she did with that prestigious Yale law degree.

Which was insufficient for her to pass the DC bar...that Anita Hill passed on first try.

Craig, I'm going to see Niki Giovanni next Thursday night at the Fitzgerald
Theater in St. Paul. Do you like her works?

I know you'll be in DC for the Inauguration. I won't be going as previously planned.

My daughter's having surgery the week after, and I've planned to come to DC for the surgery and stay a week after- There goes my 2 week vacation.


http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/mpr/events.ev...

I missed this first time around, spirit.

I love Niki Giovanni. Enjoy the show!

I hope all goes well with your daughter.

Thank you, Craig.

Have a blast at the Inauguration!

Spirit..you not gone be in DC?!!! I was looking forward to you being there.

well, you know I don't trust her. never have.

I don't trust llar Clinton either, Craig.

This woman should've been handed a Golden Globe today. Alll that fawning going on, made me each for the ROLAIDS.

Uncle Barney's laying down with the TARP I love this guy!

rikyrah: A WORD fro Mr. Roland:

President Bush looks ridiculous defending Katrina response



For the second time in four days, I witnessed a desperate politician give a stunning, hilarious and utterly delusional news conference.

First, it was Friday's Oscar-winning performance by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who blasted his opponents in the state's House after they impeached him.

Then there was yesterday's news conference by President George W. Bush, who spoke about the highs and lows of his presidency.

Yet out of all the things that he said, nothing was absurd was his defense of the federal response to the disaster in New Orleans wreaked by Hurricane Katrina.

Bush said that it was wrong to assert that the federal response was slow as evidenced by the 30,000 people rescued off rooftops.

Huh?

Anyone with common sense - Republicans or Democrats - could conclude that the federal response to the mayhem there was horrible. And for Bush to try to spin it was even more horrible.

He should have just admitted that that was a massive failure. But to try to defend it only makes him look worse.

Sorry, President Bush. You blew it then and now.

Roland S. Martin www.rolandsmartin.com CNN Contributor

Sent from Blackberry

Brotha Roland "rolls" with his Blackberry 2! :>) :>)

Roland's the bomb. I'm looking forward to the day when he has his own news show.

Lary King had Dubyah and Laura on tonite. Larry asked Laura was she angry with Barack for talking about bush during the campaign, about his 8 years of a whole lot of nothing. Laura: "Yes, was."
The interview felt forced. Larry's trying to mke this monkey look respectable. Ugh!Please!

spirit: Me 2! :>) I'm believin' he will! TIMING!! :>)

Missed it. BUT, I notice that he consistently tries to tease out "controversial, YET OBVIOUS, emotions! DUMB!! :>)

Ain't enough shoes in the world to throw at the TV after watching those two on CNN. That self-satisfied smirk made me want to scream.

TriniPrincess: CO-SIGN!!! :>)

BUT, spare your TV. Use "footies!" :>) :>)

spirit, make that 5 days, 22 hrs. to go!

GreenLady, LMAO! Chimpy caught the fuzzy slippers ;-)

Speaking of venting, why the netroots lately can take a long walk off a short pier.

All I have to say to your venting is AMEN!

TriniPrincess: Took a "Field Trip" to your site! :>)

Loved the "IMAGE" of TODAY - - January 13, 2009! :>) :>)

Looks like he's "READY TA GO!!!" :>) :>)

Annnnnnnnd, WE ARE "FIRED UP!!" :>) :>)

GLH

Still listening to....

Stronger
Wiser
Better
much better
than I ever was before

never could have made it

I would have lost it...but now I c how you were there for me.

If had not been for u I;m stronger...I made it ...I 'm wiser..because you were there to carry me through my best..

so much BETTER~!!!

I can stand here and tell you

I MADE IT

my GOD that song just makes my DAY..start RIGHT and then at NOON I need it RIGHET and it does and then in early EVE it makes it right again

you know ..it is like

an all day endless thing.


LOVIN It!!!

whiterosebuddy: YOU jes' keep on B-ing INSPIRED!! :>)

ENJOY LIFE!! :>) :>)

You know it, TriniPrincess. 7 days, 1 week GWB GTFOH!!!!!!!!

Jennifer Hudson's Return to the Spotlight

Marc Malkin Marc Malkin – 2 hrs 46 mins ago


Los Angeles (E! Online) – Welcome back, Jennifer Hudson!

I can exclusively tell you that Ms. Hudson will return to the stage for the first time since her horrific family tragedy at next month's Super Bowl.

The Grammy-nominated songbird will sing the national anthem before the big gridiron game on February 1 in Tampa, Florida.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20090114/en_cel...

spirit: Thank you. GOD BLESS Ms. HUDSON and HER FAMILY! :>)

rikyrah: This is one of those NICE, HUMAN INTEREST articles:

Inaugural Poet Part Of History - Again

(CBS) For 46-year-old Elizabeth Alexander, a Yale professor of African American Studies, the chance to give the inauguration poem next Tuesday is in part the realization of a dream more than 40 years in the making, reports CBS News chief national correspondent Byron Pitts.

She was barely one year old when her parents brought her to the Lincoln Memorial to hear Dr. King's speech. Her father was a civil rights advisor to President Johnson.

She was a part of history then. She will be a part of history now.

"Throughout the years, that became an important, iconic story in our family," Alexander said. "A way of saying, 'this is what you do when you think that things should be better. You work, you march, you do and contribute what you have to contribute.' That's what always meant to me so the day after Dr. King's birthday, to be in that very spot and for me also to be in the great city that I grew up in is going to be very powerful."

She becomes only the fourth person in history to read a poem during a presidential inauguration.

The last poet to have this honor was Miller Williams, who read for President Bill Clinton's second Inauguration 1997.

Maya Angelou was his first in 1993.

Robert Frost was the very first during President John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961.

Frost actually recited an old poem he'd memorized. Blinded by the sun, he couldn't read the poem from the podium he'd actually written for the day.

Speaking of Frost, what's Alexander's back up plan in case something goes wrong on stage on Tuesday?

"I will have many copies tucked away," she said.

With five books on poetry, a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 2005, Alexander says the inaugural poem is all but finished.

"What will be your job that day?" Pitts asked. "What are you hoping to accomplish?"

"I am hoping to offer language that will give people a moment of pause," Alexander said. "That there is almost a quiet pool in which they are able to stand and think for a moment. I think that's part of what poetry does. It arrests us."

Alexander says she's not nervous. She's humbled.

And next Tuesday, she hopes to create a visual imagery with words that will capture the moment in time.

CAIN'T WAIT!!! It's gonna B a "GREAT DAY!" JANUARY 20, 2009!

That is what I am talking about A MOMENT.

That is the overriding theme...this is our MOMENT

AMERICA this is our MOMENT

that phrase move me so..it is difficult to express how it resonates with my spirit..it is an inspiring call to action...to know that I need to act and act now because this is our MOMENT!!

don't
pause

don't stammer

don't
hesitate

don't stutter

MOVE

now
is
the
time

AMERICA


THIS

IS

OUR


MOMENT





MOve..do what you feel, BE what you ARE & want the country to be.

NOW

NOW

is the MOMENT


America


THIS is

OUR

MOMENT!!!!


ACT.

whiterosebuddy: I was thinkin' that you should get some "lead-soled" shoes, so you won't be like - - - - "yeast!" STILL I RISE!! :>) :>) Sorry! :>)

Couldn't resist!! :>) :>0

I'm this EXCITED 2!! :>) Sooooo, C ya in the "stratosphere!" :>) :>)

I feel you GreenLady. It's a joy to see and expeience new, smart, bold and beautiful faces

spirit: ABSOLUTELY!!! :>) :>)

SOLID AS BARACK

Classic R&B duo Ashford & Simpson will release a remake of their 1984 smash “ Solid (As a Rock)” - named “Solid (As Barack)” - on January 20th.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atLsl0Rn7gk

O my god ...I loved this record...I was a newlywed..and I played it

ENDLESSLY!!!

spirit: It's gonna B a "BARACK - IN" DAY!! :>) :>) Whooo! Hooo! :>)

hee-larious! Maya Rudolph is so happy right now!

Yeah, I'll bet she is; didn't see her or Fred perform on SNL. I'm happy to see Ashford & Simpson though, love them!

Heres the link http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/cl...

Thanks!

Fenty Lets Obama Into Public School to Shoot Hoops

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Fenty-L...

rikyrah: Ya know YOUR PARTY is in the tank, YET you do something like THIS! ***shakin' my head***

Former GOP Aide Caught Selling Inauguration Tickets



Selling inauguration tickets isn't illegal, not yet anyway. But it was still embarrassing for one former congressional aide who now works at a powerful lobbying firm when she was caught this week trying to sell tickets to Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony for big bucks.

The former aide is Gina Santucci, who now works as associate general counsel at BGR Holding, the lobbying, public relations and financial advisory firm formerly known as Barbour Griffith & Rogers, founded by current Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and veteran GOP political strategist Ed Rogers.

Read the whole story here.

Did she need the $$$ that badly?? Whew!!! ***shakin' my head***

rikyrah: Mr. P-EO and Mr. VP-E Biden are going to SURVEY their "TERRITORY!"

Obama, Biden To Visit Supreme Court Tuesday

According to President-elect Obama's transition team, Obama and Joe Biden will visit the Supreme Court tomorrow afternoon:

At the invitation of Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden will pay a protocol visit to the Supreme Court of the United States tomorrow afternoon. This will mark the third time in recent history a President-elect and Vice President-elect have visited the Court. The last such visit was made by Bill Clinton and Al Gore on December 8, 1992. The first visit was on November 19, 1980, when Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush called on the Court. The President-elect and Vice President-elect will visit with the Chief Justice and the Associate Justices in the ceremonial West Conference Room where Obama and Biden will sign the same guest book signed by Clinton and Gore in 1992. Following the signing of the guest book, the Chief Justice and the President-elect and Vice President-elect will join the Justices on a brief tour of the Courtroom and the Justices' Conference Room. This is the room where the nine Justices meet in private to decide pending cases.The visit is a private event. There will be no photo or press availabilities.

Mr. President-Elect Obama - - - doing the UNUSUAL! 'cause HE is a LEADER!!

Awesome.

Wonder how Unca Clarence is gonna take this one....heheheheheheheh!

LAWN JOCKEY ALERT!!!!!

HANDKERCHIEF HEAD ALERT!!!!!!

blksista: He might call in - - - -SICK!! :>) Orrrr- BUSY! Hah!

LAWD! I'd like ta B a "FLY!" :>) :>)

He might as well call in------HATA!! BUT, they won't know how ta CODE that!! :>) :>)

GreenLady, that knee-grow will call in SLICK!

spirit: LOL! :>)

Hi All - are any of your students/kids participating in the Dear Mr. President contest?

Here are the details. Be a part of history!Your child can join kids from all across the nation to share their hopes, dreams and ideas with President-elect Barack Obama. To participate, kids send in their ideas in the form of letters or drawings. The top submissions will be featured in kidthing’s "Dear Mr. President" digital book which will be unveiled in the kidthing store on President’s Day, February 16, 2009! Kidthing will be offering this special digital book for free. A limited edition print will also be sent to the White House!

I have the submission PDF file posted to my PTA website. http://arnoldespta.com/Documents/DearMr.Preside...

val: Nice find! :>)

This crazy mofo is all over the news and radio. Patrick Leahy gave an impassioned delivery today on the character ,and ethics and the law.


Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 11:19am CST | Modified: Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 12:07pm
Justice report


Bradley Schlozman, former U.S. attorney for the Western District of Missouri, considered political and ideological affiliations of prospective hires for sections he supervised within the Justice Department, according to a report by the agency’s Office of Inspector General.

Schlozman was the principal deputy assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division before becoming the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Missouri.

The Justice Department released a report Tuesday that said its investigation of Schlozman found that he favored applicants to the Civil Rights Division who had conservative political affiliations and demurred prospects “with civil rights or human rights experience whom he considered to be overly liberal.”

The chief of the Special Litigation Section told Justice Department investigators that Schlozman’s recommended hires to the department “generally lacked relevant experience,” to which Schlozman responded that “relevant experience was not always a plus,” according to the report.

Schlozman couldn’t be reached for comment Tuesday, but his attorney, William Jordan with Atlanta-based Alston & Bird LLP, said in a written statement that the report was “inaccurate, incomplete, biased, unsupported by law and contrary to the facts.”

Jordan said that Schlozman approached candidates who had a conservative view of the law, which is permissible, but said that didn’t equate to hiring individuals because they were Republicans or Democrats, which is illegal.

“He hired individuals from across the political and ideological spectrum based upon their academic records, respect for the rule of law and their ability to separate their personal views from the enforcement activities of the Civil Rights Division,” Jordan said in the statement.

The full report is available on the Justice Department’s Web site .


http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2...

Ok this is part 2. Because earlier today I posted about this brief that was in the NYTimes yesterday. Basically according NYT Olmert said to the AP that Bush was his bitch and he called Bush up to tell him not put a resolution in front of the UN that the uppity Rice was drafting about Israel's war against Hamas. I thought this epitomized what was wrong with US foreign policy( jumping to Israels piper). Olmerts arrogance to say this was astounding. My second thought was this was AP's way to stir up trouble. Rather it seems like its Olmert who is tripping- if Bush folks are to be believed.


US says Olmert's UN vote story 'just 100%, totally not true'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231...
By HERB KEINON AND ALLISON HOFFMAN
Israel and the US engaged in a rare and uncharacteristic public spat Tuesday over events leading to the US abstention in last Thursday's UN Security Council resolution vote on the Gaza crisis.

Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Gabriela Shalev and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at a Security Council meeting about the situation in Gaza, UN headquarters in New York, Tuesday.

Both the State Department and White House spokesmen said that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's claim that he had essentially gotten US President George W. Bush to twist Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's arm and abstain on the measure was simply untrue.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Olmert's story of what happened in his conversation with Bush was "just 100 percent, totally, completely not true," while White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto said "there are inaccuracies."

During a speech to local authority heads in Ashkelon on Monday, Olmert said that Rice had been embarrassed when she was ordered to back down from supporting the resolution she had prepared, after Olmert intervened with Bush.

SKIP SKIP
"You really do wonder what the prime minister was thinking - if it's true, you'd really want to keep it as quiet as possible, and if it's not true, why would you want to make up a story that would embarrass both the Bush administration and the Israeli government and draw criticism from those who are antagonistic to Israel?" asked Spiegel, director of the Center for Middle East Development at UCLA.

"No matter how you play it, exaggeration, falsehood, whole truth, the whole thing makes them all look bad," Spiegel told The Jerusalem Post.




If you ask me this is probably the last straw for Condi. She must be sick to death of swallowing all that disrespect and second guessing of her expertise. I bet yesterday morning she picked up the NYT and was like "Oh no these motherfuckers did not just..." How much you bet her tell all book will be in bookstores this time next year about all the fucked up shit Rumsfeld, Cheney and company put her through??? She loyal but not that loyal.

You would tell the story..to PUNK America!! To let them know that Bush was far more worse than we already believed..and that Israel was far more calling the shots on American FP than we WANT to believe.!!!

already posted?

Kids from Ron Clark school to perform at inaugural balls

This is great! And I heard that 10-year-old Damon Weaver got an invitation as part of the press!!!!

claudia_m: Annnnnnnd, a TICKET to a PARADE!

During his "spot' yesterday, he said that he's gonna try to "holla" at Mr. P-EO in order to ask him a question. :>) :>)


2 ca - ute!!! :>) :>)

claudia, thanks for the news, I was rooting for the young chap! :-))))

very nice :)

Anyone see this? A bush Dept of Justice appointee says that he likes his office like marion berry black and bitterhttp://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/top_dojer_called_voting-rights_official_black_and.php

Fucker

All hell breaks out at the Tennessee State House.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/13/17122/6...

No one saw this coming!

The Republicans -- who had just finally won control of the State House for the first time in 40+ years – were suppose to elect their Speaker of the House today. And failed!

Anaxamander has the details in his/her diary. The Tennessee State House has 50 Republicans and 49 Democrats. Well, Rep. Kent Williams (R-TN) got the support of all 49 Democrats plus his own vote to put himself in the Speaker’s chair.

The TNGOP is freaking stunned and freaking out!

LOL!!!!

when are the confirmation hearings over? I maybe going for another media blackout til it's time for the inauguration. I'll just have 2 count on ya'll 2 keep me up what's what. I don't even want to think about eric holder's hearing.

WTF!!!

Obama Dines With Conservative Opinion Leaders

I saw one article that "speculated" Rush Limbaugh was in attendance. Apparently, it was a lie. If *O* had met Rush, then I surely would have vomited.

Actually Obama and Rash Limpballs dining together would be funny because I think it would blow Limbaugh's mind.

Town: Orrrrrrr, make him -- "CHOKE"! - - on his GAZPACHO! :>) :>)

He cain't handle Mr. P-EO!! :>)

I keep hearing Bill O'Reilly's ignorant shock at black people sitting down at tables and not jumping up on them asking for more mutha****ing iced tea. I get the feeling one of these morons will comment on Obama's table manners in a column thinking its complimentary.

Betcha it will the hillbilly heroin user, Limbaugh. Because it's rumored he's there, too. Someone was guesting his radio show and kept dropping hints all through the afternoon.

Hater Hannity? I'd love it if he started jumping up and down all because he wasn't invited. Or that his voice goes down a few tones after he actually met him, was charmed, and then in confusion, fascination and bewilderment, doesn't know what to do about it.

LOL!@ hillbilly heroin user!

Guurrrrl, I'd love to be a butterfly on the wall if Sham Klhannity met face to face with Barack.

not surprised at all

oops already posted!!!

Has this letter the PEOTUS wrote to Malia and Sasha been posted? He is just too much. I'm practically bawling.

http://www.parade.com/news/2009/01/barack-obama...

parker404ga: Nice find! :>) :>) ***tears***

Thank you for that link; I've printed the letter and plan to read it to my daughter's 2nd grade class tomorrow. I also purchased a children's book called "Barack" that I'm going to share with them. This will probably be the first President these kids really remember in their lives---what a wonderful thought that is!

Oh man... thanks for posting this. So lovely and moving.

parker404ga. The letter is PRICELESS. I'd carry that letter with mean and read it everyday.