Jack & Jill Politics

“The Strange Death of the Woman Who Filed a Rape Lawsuit Against Bush . . . Early one Saturday afternoon in July 2003, I made a simple phone call to Margie Schoedinger, a Texas woman who filed a rape lawsuit against George W. Bush in December 2002. . . . She sounded like someone who wanted the truth to come out. And now she’s dead” (Jackson Thoreau. Retrieved November 29, 2008, from http://www.opednews.com/thoreau1103bush_rape_su...).

She is dead because George W. Bush murdered her. This is, in a way, like the period of slavery in America in that a white person killed a black person, and there is no court, prosecutor, or sheriff around to uphold the rule of law or seriously pursue punishment against the killer. George W. Bush’s murder of an African-American woman is shocking to the conscience. According to the law, Bush should be incarcerated for the rest of his life or executed for this murder.

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

Vid of the P-E back in the day (5-12-06) talking to Conan O'Brian. He seemed so joyful and carefree then. And funny. Really, truly funny. Except, am I the only one who winces every time he relates how Michelle puts him down? Especially in front of the kids? I guess home is where you hang your head.

http://www.nbc.com/Late_Night_with_Conan_O%27Br...

rikyrah: Did we have this discussion B4??

Award-Winning Journalist Cynthia Gordy Named First-Ever Washington Correspondent for ESSENCE

NEW YORK, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Award-winning journalist, Cynthia Gordy, has been named the first-ever Washington Correspondent for ESSENCE, it was announced today by Angela Burt-Murray, Editor-in-Chief, ESSENCE. Previously serving as the News Editor for ESSENCE, she will continue to report to Tatsha Robertson, Deputy Editor, News for ESSENCE. In this new role, Gordy will be responsible for developing and maintaining key relationships on behalf of ESSENCE with the Obama administration, as well as the First Lady's staff and cabinet level officers; covering issues of importance to the African-American community. As the brand's Washington Correspondent, Gordy will generate features and report breaking news for both ESSENCE magazine and Essence.com; including a monthly column in the magazine and a daily "Obama Watch" section online.

"We are so excited to have Cynthia Gordy, one of our most talented and highly-regarded editors, take on this new and exciting challenge," says Angela Burt-Murray, Editor-in-Chief, ESSENCE. "Given her extensive news experience, especially as it relates to coverage of the 2008 Presidential campaign, I am confident ESSENCE and its readership of over 8 million African-American women will be well represented at the White House."

As a member of the ESSENCE editorial team since 2004, Gordy was most recently the News Editor for ESSENCE, during which time she covered the 2008 Presidential campaign and scored exclusive interviews with political leaders from both parties. Gordy followed the campaign from the primaries to the Democratic and Republican National Conventions through election day; culminating in live coverage of Obama's victory rally in Chicago's Grant Park.

Through the years, Cynthia has broken a number of enterprise stories: she got the first print interview with Nicole Paultre Bell; she was also the first print reporter to talk with Genarlow Wilson after he was released from jail. She nabbed one of the first interviews with Desiree Rogers, the incoming White House social secretary. Cynthia has won a number of national honors, including NABJ and NYABJ awards for her narrative about how environmental racism plagued one rural community. She was also honored for her spot report -- "An American Tragedy: The Heartbreaking Death of Sean Bell," which won an NYABJ award.

Gordy has also reported and edited news on current events, international affairs, and a wide variety of social issues including criminal justice, domestic violence, HIV/AIDS in the Black community, police brutality, and hate crimes. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Creative Non-fiction Writing and Africana Studies from the University of Pittsburgh and now resides in Harlem.

THERE IS MORE.

Sony posts first loss since 1995 -----1.1 Billion

The Japanese have been reeling for several years now financially.

The Chinese are not far behind. Remember, their holding our paper.

I read somewhere (either the WSJ OR CNN I think) that the Chinese wasn't too thrilled about holding our paper anymore. that is DEFINITELY not what we need to hear right now.

rikyrah: OBAMA INSPIRES! . . .. . .

Extreme makeover: Ossama's hair salon now Obama's

What a difference a "B" makes.

A downtown Chicago hair salon has changed its name from Ossama's Hair Design to Obama's Hair Design -- for exactly the reason you'd think:

Business is better when your name evokes one of the nation's most popular figures, not one of its most hated.

"A lot of customers stopped coming after Sept. 11," owner Mike Elsheikh said. "Old customers have come by and said, 'We like it much better.' ... This is going to work for me for sure. The name is absolutely making a huge difference."

Elsheikh, an Egyptian-born U.S. citizen from Plainfield, worked as a stylist at Ossama's when Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida launched the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Business plummeted 50 percent in the months that followed as customers shunned the suddenly unfortunately named salon, Elsheikh said.

The old owner eventually sold the business to Elsheikh, who licensed the "Obama Hair Design" name on spec during the campaign: "I had a good imagination he would win."

When Barack Obama did win the presidency, Elsheikh, 42, got moving. He officially opened the newly renamed salon at 433 S. Dearborn on Printers Row two weeks ago. Business has improved already, he said, adding people have stopped by to snap pictures of his new neon sign.

Elsheikh said he met Obama a few years ago when they both lived in the Hyde Park area. He hasn't heard anything from the president-elect since the new name went up -- and doesn't expect him to object.

"It makes a lot of sense to me to name it Obama's rather than Ossama's," Elsheikh said. "Plus Obama's gonna get Osama."

I'm sure that this kind of activity will CONTINUE! :>) :>)

Christopher Buckley is hilarious.

Okay, it’s called ‘The President’s BlackBerry Is Missing.’ The daughter takes his by mistake when she’s rushing off to school. And he’s got her BlackBerry, but he doesn’t know it. So when he goes to send the critical message to the Kremlin telling Putin to kiss his black ass, the text message goes to the English teacher at Sidwell Friends School. You with me?

Hahahaaaa!

I'm.with. you.

That was hilarious. There's plenty of ways to poke fun at Obama w/out using his race. People just have to be more creative.

funny is funny, and this is funny

Dr. Rachel just announced that 5 Republican Senators will not seek reelection in 2010.

Mel Martinez - FL (not new news)
George Voinovich - OH
Kit Bond - MO
Sam Brownback - KS
Kay Bailey Hutchinson - TX. She's running for governor.

vulcan girl: WATCHIN' 2 :>) :>)

According to a REpug Analyst - - they are getting out of "races" where states are "leaning BLUE" 'cause they fear a loss annnnnnd they don't want to invest their BENJAMINS in a loss! :>) :>)

I KNEW THIS FOOL WAS TRYING TO FAKE HIS DEATH AND RUN AWAY FROM A PENDING INVESTIGATION!

(CNN) -- A man whose financial management business is under investigation faked a life-or-death emergency in his private aircraft before secretly parachuting out and letting his plane crash in the Florida panhandle, authorities said Monday.
Marcus Schrenker exited his small plane before it crashed, and investigators are looking for him, police say.

Marcus Schrenker exited his small plane before it crashed, and investigators are looking for him, police say.
The pilot, identified as Marcus Schrenker, 38, later checked into a hotel in Alabama under a fake name and then put on a black cap and fled into woods, authorities in Alabama said, according to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office in Milton, Florida.
Authorities are searching for Schrenker.
The manager of the airport in Indiana from which the six-seat Piper PA-46 took off Sunday said that no one else was on board at takeoff.
The plane crashed Sunday night in a swampy, wooded area within 50 to 75 yards of some homes in East Milton, Florida, the sheriff's office said.

An Indiana judge on Monday froze Schrenker's assets at the request of investigators looking into his business dealings, said Jim Gavin, spokesman for the Indiana secretary of state.
Public documents list Schrenker as president of an Indianapolis agency called Heritage Wealth Management. Records also show Heritage Insurance Services at the same address. The address is listed in the telephone directory as the site of Icon Wealth Management.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/12/florida.plane....

oh PE O should grant him an interview! thank you. this brought a smile to my face.

Did anybody catch rev al on fox

i refuse 2 watch fox

I tried. It was about 15 mins of the last half hour. I think Hannity was asking why more black people don't vote Republican, and Sharpton started to bring up up voting and civil rights issues, Meatloaf tried to make a point about Repubs lack of enthusiasm for funding things like education and healthcare, but Michelle Bachmann got very shouty about something so I changed the channel because no one else could talk.

Ok, I'm gonna cry.

As some of you know, my father was a Tuskegee Airman. Flight navigator.

I'll be there for him.

That means he was trained to fly the bombers, correct? Son of a Red Tail.

Far out!

Wow, Craig, what an honor and a blessing. I'm so happy for you!

I'll be cheering and saluting these fine Amercan Service Men.

CraigHickman: Much HONOR and RESPECT.

icebergslim: I know that Ima B **laughin'**, **cheerin'*** annnnnnnnnd, ***cryin'**

ALL DAY LONG!! :>) :>) :>)

It's gonna be a "Great Day"

ENJOY!!! THEY SANGIN' :>) :>)

Chills, ,just, chills. :-)

definitely part of the most interesting gossip placed here. Makes you go hmmmmmm

Hmmmm.....well this is a different twist........I may have to lift my ban on the Bspn.

who knew

reason to dislike J. Lo and her hubby

Oh.........I already disliked them for entirely different reasons, so this doesn't really bother me.

JLo is an attention whoring opportunist who will jump on the first black bandwagon if it will get her some attention. She must think Obama is the political version of Puffy who's going to put her back on. This is nothing but trying to get her name back in the spotlight. Look at her wearing low cut stuff again trying to get back in the headlines. JLo must still think it's 1999 when she was wearing bedazzled headbands rolling with Puffy and his crew. Somebody needs to inform her it's 2009 and ERRYBODY got her number.

As far as Marc Anthony, I don't know too much about him but I guess he needs a hit, he hasn't had one in a while...maybe since 1999.

And some of JLo's supporters are saying that Rihanna didn't donate so why isn't anyone complaining about that?

The answer is Rihanna is NOT an American citizen and thus cannot donate or vote.

Some people are just tacky and JLo & Skeletor are some of them.

Is Rihanna singing/miming or whatever it is hse does or tries to do?

I read that...I know that she and America whatsherface on Ugly Betty. supported Hillpatine. Now she finds out that she made the wrong career move backing the wrong candidate?

The girl is not to be trusted...reminds me of Celia Cruz who couldn't stand blacks even though she herself was...

whaaaaaaa??

My apologies. I repeated something I read in regards to Cruz when she died in 2003. For all intents and purposes, Cruz was a musical heroine in many eyes and a fraud in others. She was not perfect, she was just enough.

yeah I remember that. I admit it has kinda soured me on Ugly Betty. don't get me wrong still watch it, but it's not as must see tv as it used 2 b

Had a lot of fun reading this article at Gawker about the "Obama Merchandise Classification System." http://tinyurl.com/7hgvs5

The categories include: Official Crap; Media Crap; Knick-Knack Crap; and Offensive Crap.

(Personally, I do not feel as if I have acquired enough Obama knick-knacks yet. I saw this key chain the other day and I thought, "oooh, wait till payday!" and every time I see a bootleg Obama shirt, I have to stop and take a look. My self-control is just going out the window...)

claudia_m: VIRTUAL "DAP"! :>) :>)

Feeding the "ONE MAN ECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGE" concept! :>) :>)

Dr. Madowis laing down with a play by play timeline of Bush's whereabouts during Katrina. Get'em Rachel!!!!!!!

Andrew Sullivan has a video of a splitscreen with Beyonce and some little girl doing her own dance to ' Put a Ring on it'.

Disturbing on so many levels.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...

This plays like a horror show, Scary!

Two words. JonBenet Ramsey

awe.

JonBenet issues are on a totally different level. This little girl didn't wear heels or make up. My niece, who is 3, loves to dance and imitates every dance. I frequently make up dances for her because she loves to dance so much. Though content wise on the song... I get it.

evita, I'm so glad you get it. I did't mention that child's name for naught. If it stuns or disappoints, or shocks, I make no apologies.

I don't have anything against kids dancing. Both my daughters started dance classes when they were 4 years old right up until they gratduated high school.

There wasn't any self-ass slapping and sexually suggestive gyrations gong up in the classroom and certainly not at home.

The kind of dancing the little girl was doing is so inapproriate for a child-Miranda's right. It's not the least bit cute or funny to me either. The parents are opening their child up for a host of trouble, precocousius sexuality, for one.

eww.....ouch....but you are SOOOOOO right!

That baby should be getting a dance scholarship instead of being in front of the TV! She looks to be about 4 years old and she can dance. But when will folks learn this stuff maybe maybe maybe cute at home in front of your friends in the living room when you say "Look what she's doing now". It is NOT CUTE when you put in on Youtube. Have some sense people...

What disturbs me about this video:
1. My sneaking suspicion that the little girl wasnt coming back from ballet class but rather that the adults in her life made her put on that leotard for the ensuing video.

2. She knows alot of the lyricss. Who told her what Beyonce was singing and let her watch that damn video over and over and over again?

3. The hair flips and ass slapping

Lawd lawd lawd

This wasn't cute regardless of the audience.

Another Good Post From Al @ The Field.

Check it out: "dean-was-snubbed-enough-already..."

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/dean-...

Yeah, what Al said.

I love how Al always puts it down. :o)

Obama Inspires Quilts

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1363311....

rikyrah: OBAMA I-N-S-P-I-R-E-S. . .

That's "WHYCOME" HE/THEY bring out the CREATIVE BEST in sooooo many people!! :>)

The display, with 44 new works from 44 African-American artists, celebrates the historic thread that quilts weave through many families -- with their folksy stories and cherished fabric of years gone by.

One of the quilts in the display, exhibit organizers say, is from Carrie Nelson, the oldest member of Michelle Obama's family.

THIS PROJECT IS A- M - A -Z -I -N -G :>) :>)


GOD BLESS THE ARTISTS/QUILTERS!! :>)

What a beautiful labor of love. Kudos to Ms. Freeman

As GreenLady says: He can have whateva he likes! :-))

spirit: Thanks! :>) :>) [credit TI :>)]

oh thank you. my friend lmerchie from the museum of af am history in boston was commissioned to make one. . . it was so beautiful! i thought it was such a great idea.

I really want to watch the Inauguration thingy that iwill be shown on HAB, but I don't have HBO, doe anyone know if they will be doing another HBO free weekend in honor of the inauraguration, or if HBO will be showing the program online?

It's going to be broadcast on regular stations during that time period so everyone will be able to watch it.

lamh31: I posted an article [2-day] that described all the stations that will have INAUGURATION coverage. Hope it will help.

Otherwise, "What Sepia said!" LOL! :>) :>)

You may wanna call Pookie and nem for a hookup.

No hookup. I have digital cable, but I cancelled by premium channel line-up a year ago, since I realized that I was paying extra for them, but I wasn't even watching those channels much. So I got rid of them.

I guess it would be really sad to order hbo, for the weekend, and then cancel it on Wednesday

You may wanna call Pookie and nem for a hookup.

Sepia: RAOTFL!!!!! :>) :>) :>)

U R CRAZY!!! :>) :>)

Dawn of Obama era forces Republicans to take stock
James Rosen

WASHINGTON — Republicans who just four years ago boasted of nearing "permanent majority rule" now watch a dynamic leader move into the White House at the helm of a resurgent Democratic Party with new footholds in longtime Republican bastions.

For Republican activists across the country, Barack Obama's inauguration as the first black president produces dread, bewilderment and grudging admiration.

"I'm in a deep depression," said Josephine Schmidt, a mother of three and a small-business owner in Atascadero, midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco in California's Central Valley.

"Obama is going to lead this country on a path we've never seen before, the path of socialism," Schmidt said. "It's going to take years and years for us to recover, if we ever do."

Schmidt and her husband, Donald, whose company makes vanilla extract, already are laying off workers in anticipation of the tax increases, health-care mandates and burdensome regulations that they're certain Obama will enact.

In Florida, where Obama became the first Democrat to win more than half the presidential vote since Lyndon Johnson in 1964, the prognosis is less grim.

"I felt that Obama just did not have enough experience, but he's surprised me," said Jeffrey Gordon, a lifelong Republican retiree in Coral Springs, north of Miami. "I've been by and large impressed by him."

He and other Republicans like Obama's Cabinet picks — especially Hillary Clinton as secretary of state — and they're pleased by the Illinois Democrat's pledge to wrap $300 billion in tax cuts into his economic stimulus plan.

"He's inheriting a horrific environment," Gordon said. "He's got a rough two years ahead of him, but so far, without him even having taken the oath, I give him high marks."

In Ohio, another red state that turned blue for Obama, Josh Keezer is struck by the president-elect's energy and sense of command.

"He's not even president yet, but he's been all over the place," said Keezer, who lives outside Toledo and teaches English to immigrants. "He's been at the White House, and he's met with Congress. He's building his experience now. He's about the best nominee the Democrats have had in quite a few years. Hopefully, his learning curve won't be as big as I thought it would be."

Obama, 47, defeated Sen. John McCain of Arizona on Nov. 4 by 53-46 percent. Obama carried nine states that President George W. Bush won in 2004, while McCain failed to turn any states that had gone for Democratic nominee John Kerry.

Obama's emphatic victory has left Republicans searching for answers.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/349/v-print/story/59...

"Obama is going to lead this country on a path we've never seen before, the path of socialism," Schmidt said. "It's GOING TO TAKE YEARS AND YEARS FOR US TO RECOVER, if we ever do." (my caps) Socialism ROTFLMAO

I have a great deal of sympathy for small business as they really suffer from regulations and relationships that make their business success but this is a classic example of cognitive dissonance(http://www.habermas.org/cncgndis.htm).

How does she think she got to this situtation such that her business has declining or no additional demand for her products? Whom through nonfeasance, failed to protect her ability to borrow money? Republicans have no shot if this their base.

The vanilla extract lady and her hubby need to just shut up. How do they blame laying people off in Obama? UHHH, were they paying attention for the last 2-3 years?

Besides, how much $$ do you make from Vanilla extract anyway?

lol@ vanila extract lady. So sad V.E lady & hubby are running old 8 track tapes while PEO sporting an IPOD!!!

Schmidt is a piece of work, firing people at her company because of what she THINKS might happen.

Her business is going broke due to a combination of her own poor business keeping skills and Bush, but instead of admitting that, she wants to blame Obama.

What brand of Vanilla Extract does she make? Because I want to help put her totally out of business so I can see if she will have her hand out for Obama's socialist welfare checks.

They.Just.Didn't.see.Barack.Coming.

Hee, hee!

Inauguration details.

Love this site for inauguration news.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/inauguration/

At Obama's inauguration, activists will walk a fine line

WASHINGTON — Peace activists in the nation's capital met for weeks last fall, brainstorming how they'd demonstrate their opposition at the inauguration of John McCain as president.

Then Barack Obama won the election.

What's a liberal protester to do?

"It was a happy dilemma," said Barbra Bearden, spokeswoman for Peace Action, which is affiliated with the Activist Coalition of D.C.

Washington is a town of protests, and not a week goes by, it seems, that a group isn't in front of the U.S. Capitol with bullhorns and signs calling for better education, or cheaper health care, or the beginning of peace, or an end to abortion.

With Obama's election, however, liberal organizations that have spent eight years blocking streets now find themselves working to change their message for this inauguration.

"We're not doing a protest," Bearden said. "We're working on having a progressive presence."
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/59547...

Obama's inauguration resonates in the South

WASHINGTON — Keylon Simpkins, cooking catfish and country-fried steak at Ajax Diner in Oxford, Miss., said he really won't believe the United States has its first black president until Barack Obama takes the oath of office.

Simpkins, a 26-year-old African-American, graduated in 2007 with a political science degree from Ole Miss, the University of Mississippi, just down the road from the popular eatery.

In late September 1962, President John F. Kennedy sent thousands of federal troops to Oxford to quell riots that killed two people and injured 300 when James Meredith attempted to register as the university's first black student.

"To say that we went from having the first African-American at Ole Miss just 40-some years ago to now having the first African-American president — that's one of those things . . . " Simpkins' voice caught for a moment ". . . I don't know how to describe it. I know it happened, but I'm still waiting on the inauguration for it to sink in. It's like a shining moment in history."


http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/59546.html

Any JJPers from NYC heading to DC on Monday ? Or know of rideshares posted somewhere? I need a ride to the inauguration festivities. I have never had problems with the Chinatown bus but I am a little worried it might be overwhelmed on Monday. Bolt bus seems shady and anyway its sold out. Also have never used Megabus though it has spots open I am a little worriedbecause it only leaves from NYC every few hours. Im scared it wont show up and I'll be stranded in NYC.

Thoughts??

Thoughts?

Check with local churches or groups that worked on the campaign. I know in Phila, there are several who organized around their campaign offices. But also check that chartered buses have the proper parking certificate. There are a BOATLOAD of regulations they needed to follow to be allowed anywhere close to the mall.

If you have the $$, you might be surprised on what you can do on Amtrak. I talked with a reservation agent, and the closer you get to the day, the more people let their reservations slide (mistakenly or otherwise)

Besides, Union Station in DC is not that far a walk to the Capitol and Mall area.

My sister ONLY uses Megabus when she comes visiting from Minneapolis. I don't know about the East Coast Megabus, but I can vouch for the Midwest Megabus. They are reliable.

I know about the Chinese bus - did you go down and try and buy a ticket early? I have a friend who has done that - when she goes to Boston.

You can buy tickets early but its first come, first served. Usually there are several bus companies operating in Chinatown so I just take whoever is leaving first or who has seats open. But it can sometimes get Third World ( and I say that lovingly) and I am worried about that happening on Monday.

I thought some enterprising black folk would be chartering buses up the wazoo. I only see one guy on Craigslist who has been doing it for several weeks now and it seems like no one is buying.

Senate hearings to evaluate Obama's pending nominations scheduled for Tuesday
The five committee hearings scheduled Tuesday to evaluate President-elect Barack Obama's pending nominations. ___ — Peter Orszag for Office of Management and Budget director and Robert Nabors II for deputy director of the OMB by the Senate...http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/sns-ap-confirmation-hearings-glance,0,1553864.story

Obama's green team, including a Marylander
baltimoresun.com
Carol Browner is back! The former Environmental Protection Agency chief and Maryland resident has been tapped by President-elect Barack Obama to be his climate "czar." She's pictured above, third from left, in the Associated Press photo of Obama's press...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/news_local_bayenvironment/~3/HR5Foem4qw0/obamas_green_team.html

There's a whole lot of fineness in that picture. Maybe the PEOTUS and Mayor can start a Bringing Sexy Back party.

I cant do anything but smile at that.........so cool.

Can't forget about Biden.

Biden visits Iraq as bombs highlight ongoing war
The Associated Press
Vice President-elect Joe Biden conferred today with Iraqi leaders after a trip to Afghanistan, capping a tour of U.S. battlefronts on a day when police reported bombings killed 10 people in Baghdad. The four attacks were a reminder that major violence...http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/world/iraq/bal-biden0112,0,1667071.story

I know, right? He gets no love, NO LOVE, from the media. I guess by now, he's used to it. But this didn't even make the news this morning. WHASSSUP with that??

Bush Punts CAFE to Obama, Makes Life Even More Uncertain for Automakers
MotorTrend Magazine
DETROIT - Before oil tickled the $150/barrel level last summer, before the financial industry burned up most of the Detroit Three's cash last fall, domestic and foreign automakers were anxious about 2011-15 Corporate Average Fuel Economy proposals. The...http://blogs.motortrend.com/6410965/government/bush-punts-cafe-to-obama-makes-life-even-more-uncertain-for-automakers/index.html

Obama to change how bailout is spent
The Associated Press
Seeking to reassure wary lawmakers, President-elect Barack Obama said today he will fundamentally change the way the second half of the $700 billion financial bailout fund is spent, focusing some of the relief on housing and small businesses. Obama asked...http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/politics/bal-bailout0112,0,4893585.story

Bono, Beyonce, Wonder, Springsteen, Usher lined up for inaugural event
AP Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Judging by the lineup, Sunday's inaugural celebration for Barack Obama at the Lincoln Memorial is a coveted gig for music's top names. Beyonce, U2, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Usher, Shakira, Sheryl Crow, Josh Groban and...http://www.baltimoresun.com/topic/sns-ap-hbo-inauguration,0,6297386.story

Obama meets with Mexican president Calderon to discuss NAFTA, border security, immigration
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — President elect Barack Obama said Monday that his administration will begin work immediately to strengthen the U.S.-Mexico relationship. He characterized the existing friendship between the two border nations as strong, but said...http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-obama-calderon,0,1856241.story

Bush, acting at Obama's behest, asks Congress for final $350B from bailout fund

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/po...

I loved this comment on another thread regarding Obama's consumate political skills.


'Not only does Obama have political capital to accomplish his goals, he has a political genius that puts him in league with Clinton. How soon people forget! This is a man who transformed his preacher's political suicide pact into a transcendent teaching moment.

He has thoroughly cornered, killed, stuffed and mounted every political enemy who ever had the error in judgement to threaten him.'



hehehehehe, and then turned around and made HRC ..SOS..after whipping her butt from sea to shining sea...her AND Bill were trounced....hahahahaha

Likely closure of Guantánamo raises question of what to do with inmates
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/...

Was Bush drunk today?

That is all.

Maybe, he was awfuly giddy.

I feel sorry for him.

Well,...... He was "Misunderestimated".......? Tha tis all.

Barack Obama will need something to say when he talks to Iran

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/column...

Barack Obama 'kidnaps' 24 hero Jack Bauer
US conservatives claim that the 24 character Jack Bauer has been 'kidnapped' by the new liberal agenda of President-Elect Barack Obama.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/north...

BWA HAHAHAHAHA!!! So is Superman liberal or conservative? What about Batman? I do believe Tony Sparks was a real pro-war conservative until he invented Ironman and then he was clearly a wussy liberal.

rikyrah: On Chris Matthews"


IFFFF Mr. P-EO was endorsing "BLACKBERRIES", at this point, his ADVERTISING would be worth- - - -

"BIG NUMBER- - - - - $50 MILLION!!

I'm just sayin' ------ HE IS a ONE MAN ECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGE!! :>) :>)

Good on him!! :>)

They cannot piegonhole Obama, here another political analysis, trying in vain to describe him:

" the attempts to pinpoint Obama along the ideological spectrum have been similarly unrelenting. The right looks at his economic-stimulus plans and spies an old-school, big-government liberal. The left looks at the tax cuts in that same plan, his hawkish foreign-policy appointments and decidedly nonprogressive economic ones, and his invocation invitation to Rick Warren, and wonders, “Hey, was this guy really serious about all that centrist talk during the campaign? We thought he was only kidding, that he was one of us all along!”


Hahaha...and then they have to marvel at how he harnessed the power of the internet to create an entirely new political machine that fueled his meteoric rise to the Presidency:

"The huge sums the Obama campaign harvested from small donors via the web are justly famous. But the scale of its web-enabled grassroots network was nearly as prodigious—and just as consequential. A database containing a staggering 13 million e-mail addresses, at least 3 million of them belonging to donors. Two million active users and 35,000 self-starting affinity groups on MyBarackObama .com. A million cell-phone numbers of people who requested the campaign send text messages to them. Countless names on volunteer lists from Obama’s sprawling get-out-the-vote effort on Election Day—by which time fully 25 percent of the people who pulled the lever for him were already connected to the campaign electronically.

The political implications of this network are impossible to overstate. “They have basically invented their own party that is compatible with the Democratic Party but is bigger than the Democratic Party,” the Republican media savant Stuart Stevens, who helped to elect George W. Bush twice, argues. “Their e-mail list is more powerful than the DNC or RNC. In essence, Obama [was] elected as an independent with Democratic backing—like Bernie Sanders on steroids.”

http://nymag.com/news/features/all-new/53380/in...

Obama doesn't owe anyone...they all want his network database of donors...he has the power to act politically independent because of that base. Transformational political power being welded in a never before seen manner.

Obama to star in Spider-Man comic
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_a...

Per Chris Matthews
Value of Obama Blackberry endorsement is worth $50 Million Dollars.

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN

val: OOPS! I di'int C this!! Sorry! :>)

Girl you know I don't mind. We here

two fingers in a V going back and forth.

Val: ***V - - "eye - 2 -eye"*** :>) :>) Thanks!! :>)

They are grapplin with ways to characterize Obama's strategic brillance...calling him Mr. 'indirect direction'

"He has shown time and again that unique skill of being able to guide people toward his desired conclusion with what I will call indirect direction. When the issue was his race, his name, his religion, his inexperience or what have you, he rarely (except in the big "race speech") tried to assuage voters by addressing these points directly. After the financial crisis hit in mid-September, for example, he rarely said, "Yes, I can handle this, and here's why." He laid out a few proposals, let his superior debate performances speak for themselves - and let the public watch John McCain flail. The voters reached his desired conclusion (that he was better prepared to handle the crisis) without his having to write it across the sky in letters."

www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/12/co...

Sorta reminds me of the 'nolookpass' they just are unable to predict who will have the ball when Obama is running up court with it..no telling who or where or how he will pass it off.

Interesting to watch them try to define Obama....I imagine at some point, they are going to have acknowledge like Bird did...".that was God as magic johnson, out there"

I am loving how innovative Obama is.

rikyrah: Ima re-post this. This is UNBELIEVABLE!

French Group Uses Obama 'Double' To Highlight Racial Profiling

PARIS — A French black group is parading a Barack Obama-lookalike at the lower house of parliament and in Paris in a campaign to highlight its concerns about alleged racial profiling by police in France.

After a stout "Yes We Can!," American actor Michael Lamar met lawmakers at the National Assembly for Monday's start of a media blitz by the Representative Council of Black Associations.

For years, the group, known by the French acronym CRAN, has raised questions about a country that has championed a colorblind standard that sees all citizens as just French, regardless of ethnic origins _ and where collecting racial data is banned.

The group wants a meeting with Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie to discuss a survey it commissioned last year that showed "visible minorities" say they get stopped by police more often by police than other people.

Playing along after meeting Lamar, Green party lawmaker Yves Cochet said: "The presence at our side of 'Mr. Obama' is the sign that France should become as generous and egalitarian as the United States can be."

Lamar, a San Francisco native who now lives in Philadelphia, was being taken _ dressed neatly in suit and tie _ to a police station and other parts of the capital, and CRAN was filming the reactions of passers-by for an upcoming publicity spot, the group said.

The videos were also planned "to prompt dialogue on these issues that expose the backwardness of our country and its decision-makers when public opinion is concerned," it said.

Interior Ministry spokesman Gerard Gachet said French police do not stop people based on ethnic or racial backgrounds, and it would be "unthinkable" that such a policy could ever be put in place.

Baratunde JUST addressed this topic.!! :>)

Mr. President-Elect Obama - - - -REPRESENTIN' in PARIS!! :>)

Ok,

I just watched Shrub's last press conference.

I said it in my endorsement of Obama before Iowa that we must thank George W. Bush.

For if he weren't on track of being called the WORST President in United States History..

This country wouldn't have even considered giving a Black man a chance.

LOL

You're soooo right, rikyrah. If it weren't for George W. Bush leaving DC in 8 days, Barack Obama and his family wouldn't be able to move into the WHITE HOUSE!!!

ONE MORE WEEK!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!

and there you have it.