Jack & Jill Politics

the full slideshow talked about in that segment is up on the white house website, and there are some truly beautiful photos. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/04/28/Deliver…

The President's first address to Congress!

What a beautiful thing! Woo Hoo!

Historic, makes my heart skip when I see these photos!

Yeah!

It was good!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30474572/
supreme Court hears voting rights case
With election of Obama, is discrimination provision still needed?

HELL YEAH…..

There was a casket placed outside a voting precinct in NC before the general election last fall…

Also, protesters and hecklers were harassing voters while they waited in line to do early voting in NC…..

Hell, the Rethugs all but suppressed and disenfranchised millions of voters in 2000 and 2004….and it is BECAUSE of Obama's election and conservative's RABID disgust for him that we will definitely need to ensure voting rights are protected…Republicans never stop scheming and will always grab for power even if they have to cheat their way to it.

I love ya RobM, I can always count on you to lead with the negative, but end with the positive. (lol)

Let's hope some part of the economic policy works, we want something to work rather than nothing right?

Great post of a conversation between Anderw Sullvian & Ta-Nehisis Coates over at the Atlantic:

“The Obamas And The Presidency”
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily…
presidency.html#more

Ta-Nehisi and I discuss the first hundred days – audio as well as transcript! – here. Money quote:

AS: What I think that they've done quite quickly is establish a very powerful presidential aura. It reminds me a little bit of how Reagan began to epitomize a certain kind of American President. With Obama, it's not always predictable. He's very young. He's racially different, funny name, all the rest of it. It could have been that he would not have seemed like a President you could imagine, but he does seem to have become part of the furniture pretty quickly.

TC: That's totally true. And I'll just throw this one last thing in here. Going back to Michelle, one thing that I came across was that her job at the University of Chicago was very much about managing a very difficult relationship: the relationship between the black neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago with the University of Chicago, and particularly with the hospital there. That is a very delicate place to be.

On the one hand the community can feel like, “Oh, you're selling us out, you're taking their side” and on the other hand, the University literally hired you to make their relationship better. I think going to the whole politics of it, I think that gives you invaluable experience in terms of how not to fall into a trap that people lay for you. And the South Side of Chicago is, in many ways, socially conservative. In ways that you would just never suspect because of the way black folks vote. But it's an extremely socially conservative place.

AS: Their family, their White House is a very socially conservative unit inasmuch as Grandma is also in the house. And the kids–

TC: And the dog. [Laughter]

AS: The whole thing is also absurd, how “Leave it Beaver” it is really.

TC: That's hilarious. [Laugher]

AS: Who would have thought that the first black couple would do this? Maybe they have to do this. The truth is: I don't think it's that much of an act. It is who they are.

TC: I think it is too. I think given how he came up, he's always hungered for a kind of normalcy. And I think, given how she came up, it's what normal for her.

POTUS to FLOTUS Work to Do – Isley Brothers

FLOTUS to POTUS Work to Do – Vanessa Williams

LoL, guess we'd better FedEx him a Kangol Kap and some Pumas (with the big laces) to match his tie.

M.J WORKING DAY AND NIGHT!

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

LOL! Dang, Eddie & Iman. I loves me some MJ music. Off the Wall my absoulute favorite CD

“100 Days of Obama Foreign Policy” by Jeffrey Goldberg at the Atlantic

http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives…
_poli.php

I recently spoke with my colleague Robert Kaplan about U.S. foreign policy. We discussed many different interesting things, including the new envoy system at the State Department, the China threat, South America and the break from the Bush Administration. You should read it, mainly for Bob's insights:

Goldberg: I think the tonal difference–and tonal differences can sometimes lead over to actual substantive differences–is enormous. Obama is hyper-consciously doing what pre-9/11 George Bush said he would do, which is to have a humble a foreign policy. My basic take is that national interests are permanent and a president is there to advance American national interests. If he does that through charm or bullying or bribery or glibness or appeals to morality or military force–it doesn't actually matter as long as he advances American national interests in the appropriate way.

Kaplan: I agree. And I would add that in a global media environment, charm and packaging matter a lot more than they used to matter.

Goldberg: This is where tone actually become substance in a way.

Kaplan: Yes. We do live in this fishbowl media environment where setting the right tone matters so much. But that's been the real shift. …

I'm Bad by LL Cool J!!

I got mad-love for Vanessa Williams! She won Miss America and then the saltines took the crown away from her.

They thought they had destroyed her–they thought that they had “defined” her, and yet, she arose from their ashes like a Phoenix…

Multiplatinum Recording Artist – Yes, the Almighty G_d “Saved the Best for Last” (2.2million copies) with Vanessa but He didn't just stop there! He let her bless us with superb, acting performances in Soul Food among other projects.

So don't tell me that the Almighty G doesn't offer us all second chances! If I had a church, I'd preach this sermon next Sunday.

Better to be singing that song, than “Do you remember the time____, when we fell in love, do you remember the time___,” LMAO. He would have to sing that song if the Honeymoon were over…but da Honeymoon ain't over yet (81% of the country “likes” him).

I hear you, RobM.