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Hillary's Desperation

Could white men, even so-called "unbiased" news wags, feel threatened by a black man, black men? That would be unheard of, wouldn't it? A concept so new it boggles the mind. Say it isn't so. I don't think I can handle that information. Arrghhh. posted 05/13/2008 at 11:24:20

West Virginia Primary: Clinton Expected To Win

You wish. posted 05/13/2008 at 11:26:23

Obama In Kentucky And West Virginia: Why Will He Lose?

Some day, maybe soon, you will take the time to actually listen to the man when he speaks. (Sometimes the MSM or CSPAN show an entire campaign speech of both candidates.) Then you will realize that everything you said about the man and what he stands for and who he is just won't fit into your preconceived notions. Ignorance may be bliss, but it sure has gotten us into some deep shit. posted 05/12/2008 at 23:21:35

Michelle Vetoes Hillary As Veep Pick

Could you maybe back those "prejudice", "hates whites and it shows" comments? She's been talking to huge crowds of mostly white people for months. Don't you think by now there would be some big, big noise from the media if that were true -- and proveable?

Show us the evidence. Our Constitution states that you must assume innocence before being found guilty. (Although for people of color, that doesn't count.) P.S. I'm white. posted 05/11/2008 at 11:43:37

Duggar Family Expecting 18th Child (WATCH)

Read-read the comment -- sterilize at birth -- reverse it when child is educated. I would only add more specificity regarding "educated. posted 05/11/2008 at 17:22:17

Good God! Either tie this woman's tubes, but better yet, snip the father's. To give this kind of excess any praise or congratulations is incredibly misguided at best. Adopt! Our planet is overcrowded to a dangerous level, there are famines, we're running out of water, and idiots like this want more babies! posted 05/11/2008 at 17:17:51

Rev. Jeremiah Wright and the "Real" Black Church in America

Thank you. You have articulated precisely what I have been thinking these many weeks since the endless loops of sound bites were first aired, and unfortunately are still being stewed and spewed over. You speak with the authority that would behoove the MSM to heed. Unfortunately, the truth is often ignored in favor of the sensation that negativity harbors. posted 05/11/2008 at 15:41:44

Obama's Vice President: Who Will It Be? (POLL)

Absolutely, Rendell. Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXum_-8I1TA

(Rendell praising Farrakhan.) posted 05/09/2008 at 23:23:11

I like Kucinich's suggestion that we have a Department of Peace. I like that idea and that may be a place he'd be happy to run or put together. posted 05/09/2008 at 23:15:08

You mean like Cheney or Al Gore or Mondale? posted 05/09/2008 at 23:10:51

Clinton Supporters Send Last-Ditch Obama Attack Emails To Supers

You don't have to repeat yourself. We're not idiots. posted 05/11/2008 at 17:11:52

Will Obama Win Enough White Votes to Beat McCain?

Wouldn't that be under-educated white? Just a friendly tip. I'm white, under educated and know how to punctuate. Just another friendly tip. posted 05/09/2008 at 01:47:36

you are proof that Ignorance and fear will bring this country down before anything else. posted 05/09/2008 at 01:42:01

She's lost the black vote entirely. Obama has the support of whites of all demographics. She's dealing from the bottom of the deck on this one. She's priceless. Just priceless. posted 05/09/2008 at 01:39:27

Eva Mendes Topless And Toe Sucking In New Photoshoot (PICTURES)

HuffPost has always offered a bit of everything for everyone. The format hasn't changed since it began. It has serious contributors on the left side of the page, in the center is the national and international news, and on the right side the fluff and pop stuff. You have a choice (something that's becoming a rare commodity in the rest of the media) that covers the spectrum from intelligence to idiocy -- sorta like the country.

Arianna for President! Take it back...we need you doing what you do so well. posted 05/12/2008 at 12:03:37

Reconciliation from the Bottom Up

This reminds me of the media and politicians singing praises and offering fake sentiments when someone they've previously ripped to shreds dies and goes to heaven. They'll talk about her stubborn, bulldog toughness with "respect for her strength and fortitude." They'll conveniently forget all the negatives they recounted before they praise the "positives." Just like you're doing.

Please, don't do this. It's unbecoming. It's dishonest. She's a political hack. Always has been. Always will be. posted 05/08/2008 at 10:34:27

Big Rewards Await Clinton If She Ends Campaign Now

Plus, the Clintons have very large income. If they, by the "rules" are unable to pay their bills for their failed campaign, what would make it okay for Obama to change the "rules" and pay? posted 05/07/2008 at 20:58:40

What? Obama campaign pay her bills? She should beg first. Publically. posted 05/07/2008 at 20:56:50

Working Class Elitists

Ali, I'm one of those in the "working class" .... a woman, 65 and still working for $30 grand a year. I don't drink latte or chablis or really fit into the MSM mold of Hillary voters they keep "polling" and collecting in boxes. I read Huffpo, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, an occasional Time, Newsweek, books about Bush et al shenanigans. I'm not entirely ignorant.

Here's something that puzzles me, though. Who are the people listening to Limbaugh, et al, the Fox cast of characters and the Clear Channel preachers? And who are they supporting (besides McCain)? posted 05/07/2008 at 18:59:01

Moving Forward

You're addressing Obama's campaign (and beyond) advisors? Do not fret. This is the most organized, from the start, smartest-run campaign ever. You think they're not thinking ahead? Like they haven't been since day one? Given them some credit. posted 05/07/2008 at 20:05:00

Turning Point for Obama, Limbaugh Winning Indiana for Hillary

Hillary and Bill are a package deal....you don't get one without the other. Having Bill anywhere near the WH as co-VP would be a disaster, to say nothing of Hillary. Arghh. Not again! posted 05/07/2008 at 12:02:34

Donna Brazile, Paul Begala Angrily Spar Over Dem Stereotypes

Donna has been at the front of the class forever. Paul, you need to do a little more homework, then maybe you can move up front with the real people. Those phonies you've been hangin' with have hooked you. posted 05/06/2008 at 23:00:10

Who Are You Calling a Tabloid?

Absolutely! I'd like to emphasize a point here. US Magazine (from what I can tell in perusing it in the checkout line) doesn't pretend to be a serious news or opinion medium. It's an entertainment and celebrety gossip magazine. Period. On the other hand, we have a bevy of big boy MSN outlets that DO pretend to be serious news providers, as well as serious, well-informed opinionators (bloviators) 24/7. The real shame on them is they have no shame for their pretense and open bias. None. They present opinions on facts! and never stop to do self-examination.

I cannot tell you how many times on Saturday and Sunday that I channel-surfed to MSNBC only to see the VERDICT with Dan Abrams being rerun --- the segment on, you guessed it, the Rev. Wright "scandal". "Will this hurt Obama? Do you think he can survive this problem? Do you wonder about his staying in that church for 20 years?" ad freakin nauseum. Here's the message I got from it: "Let's bring this uppity black man down where he belongs." posted 05/05/2008 at 17:45:24

Russert Watch: Sunday, 5-4-08: In Which we Propose a New Name for Meet the Press

I'm white. I'm guessing you're white. Neither one of us has the right to hold in judgment the black church, including Rev. Wright's Trinity church that Obama and thousands of others attend until you move to the Southside of Chicago, are new to town, black, and want to be welcomed into the community as a stranger. Until you have heard all 1500-plus sermons this man gave over his 30-year career and then listen to Rev. Haggy's sermons, Pat Robertson's sermons, and a few dozen other "radical" hateful white preachers, all of us white people need to shut the ***k up! posted 05/06/2008 at 00:32:13

Instead of pissing and moaning and bitching about Russert and the rest of the media bloviacs, send them outraged e-mails like I do. If they get enough of them, perhaps they'll listen. Do not hold your breath, but do take some constructive action. posted 05/05/2008 at 23:55:52

Should Democrats Talk About Invading Iran?

It would help to go back in history, say to the 1950s during Eisenhower's presidency. Start there and look at our history with Iran, as well as Saudi. There is ample reason for every person in the Middle East to mistrust (and yes, even hate) our government, its policies and actions. To defend anything we have done in the region since the 50's is naive. Take you patriotic monofocal off and wise up. posted 05/05/2008 at 23:26:35

We're workin' on it, have fear. posted 05/05/2008 at 21:43:34

Latest Indiana And North Carolina Polling Averages

WWII, Nazis goosestepping their way through predominantly Catholic Europe. Did the Pope intervene? Was Germany a predominantly Catholic country? Yes. Were the Nazis racists? Yes. This may be a stretch, but then again...... posted 05/05/2008 at 17:53:49

And why is that a problem? posted 05/05/2008 at 02:15:54

Gall? Every newspaper in the country endorses someone. This is as good as it gets for Internet news and information. Quit whining. posted 05/05/2008 at 02:15:04

Clinton Camp: Obama Document Predicted Indiana Victory, Does That Still Stand?

The MSN has already picked her for Indiana and a close one in Virginia. The media is becoming a more obvious pimp with each day to their special interest -- keep their power alive an running -- and she and McCain are their babies. posted 05/04/2008 at 11:40:05

Clinton Gas Tax Holiday: Hillary Attacks Economists

Correction: Pant suit, custom-made pant suits. Arrogant, elitist, pit bull. posted 05/04/2008 at 11:42:59

She just keeps confirming with every day what a truly calculating, manipulative, low-ball political hack she's aways been. posted 05/04/2008 at 11:33:02

Sunday Roundup

The bloviacs, the talking heads, the opinionators on all MSN outlets reviving and flogging the issue of Wright, on a continuous loop of idiocy, and then innocently asking such things as "Do you think this issue of Wright is going to hurt Obama," or "Has Wright done too much damage to Obama for him to recover?" or "Will Wright continue to dog Obama?"

YES, YES AND YES! Because you idiots in the media keep whipping it up while giving voice to Hillary's campaign, far more coverage of Hillary on the campaign trail than Obama, other than the disproportionate amount of mewling and drooling over Wright/Obama.

If Obama loses, it won't be because of Wright, it'll because of the MSN's insistance on keeping the issue of the Rev. alive. posted 05/04/2008 at 11:30:38

Hillary's Psychic Reality

What does it say about the people who support her and McCain? What would they choose phony bullshitters, old hack politicos over someone who has all of the fine characteristics we should want in the WH representing us after the years and years of hacks and phonies and pretenders? Why would we want more of the same?

Is change just so freakin' terrifying that people are willing to risk everything for more of the same old ugly? posted 05/03/2008 at 03:45:34

That was six weeks before Hillary landed, only after things had been settled down enough to make it safe. If you walk like a fraud, talk like a fraud, look like a fraud...... posted 05/03/2008 at 03:37:02

Hillary living in Chicago's Southside, a white woman, a goodie-goodie gal, going to a black church. Choosing to go to a black church. Or, wait, choosing to not go to a black church. And not just any black church, but THE black church where one goes to find out what's real, to network, to be one with it all. Now, that's a psychic reality yet to be explored....or is it exploited? She just never ceases to amaze me. posted 05/03/2008 at 03:32:37

An Army of Women

I'm a 65-year-old woman, raised a daughter as a single mother, I'm still working, making 30 grand a year, and, if left with the choice of Clinton v. McCain, I will write in Obama. Not because he's black. Not because she's a woman. It's the character of the two. She lacks too much of it. posted 05/03/2008 at 00:09:53

Defection Of Longtime Superdelegate Jolts Clinton

Marry me. posted 05/01/2008 at 19:09:24

Barack Obama On Late Show With David Letterman: "Top 10 Surprising Things About Barack Obama"

Lame. posted 05/01/2008 at 18:02:15

Aaron Brown: Olbermann Is "Smarter, Funnier, Better Read, And Eminently More Talented" Than O'Reilly

He's full of himself, but:
1. Knows it and makes fun of himself (too subtle for some).
2. He has every reason to have high regard for himself with his smarts, his talent, his insights and knowledge. Unlike O'Really who is full of himself, but has nothing to substantiate it.
3. When KO makes a mistake, an error, he's quick to apologize or amend, somthing about character there. posted 05/01/2008 at 11:34:02

Obama's Lebron Moment

Obama: This is not a petty or vindictive man. This is a man (finally) with the character of a true statesman in a country that no longer values that quality in a "leader of the free world." We've voted for and been damned for putting in office the most glaring example of an anti-statesman for nearly 8 death-spiraling years, a man-boy pretending, "playing house" with his country and the world, disrespecting the people of this country, thumbing his snotty, elitist nose at us with his actions and attitude.

Now more than ever we need a person in office who transcends the petty shit, but also knows why it's there, and the people willing to throw it at him. He's anything but naive. He's also not out of touch with how we as a country got to where we are today, our history and our soul. He has not ignored the least fortunate of our country, he has a history of actually working with them to help themselves, on the ground, in the trenches . We used to value that in a person, but we're now willing to throw him to a pack of dogs. Where is our sense of dignity and self respect that we would allow that to happen? to accept a boy-man in office for 8 years and yet so easily kill our chance to put someone in his place who could help make us human again, whole again. His opponents "pale" in comparison. posted 04/30/2008 at 23:59:22

ABC Digs Into Clinton Trade Hypocrisy - Clinton Campaign Responds With More Deception

Bill and Hillary have always been a team and will continue to be a team, especially if THEY regain the WH by whatever pit bull tactics it takes. Talk about guilt by association....they pretty much beat all. It takes a true innocent, a naif, to think she wasn't aware of Bill's machinations in and out of the WH. posted 05/01/2008 at 00:09:39

Scamps vs. Dorks: Why Do We Want to Have a Beer with the President?

You had me up until the too bad (Bill Clinton) isn't on the ballot at the end. You were joking, weren't you? The guy who helped tank the Democratic party, triangulated it to death? Who left a budget surplus for Bush the profligate son to spend on his war instead of spending it on some domestic programs.? and now has a wife running who would have left Wright's church, but wouldn't leave Bill after years of his extracurricular activities that she knew about? Damn. That beats all. posted 04/30/2008 at 16:03:45

Hillary Clinton On O'Reilly Factor: Wright's Statements Are Offensive And Outrageous (VIDEO)

What did the rake say to the hoe?
"Hi ho." posted 04/30/2008 at 15:51:19

When he shouted out "God damn America" he was speaking to our government, NOT the American people. He was speaking to a government that has perpetrated the most agregious warfare and mass murder on other smaller, far less powerful, nonthreatening countries and their people. I echo his damnation of our Bully Government.

Listen to the entire sermon before making the same old tired judgment about him and his words! The only thing I take exception to with this man is his throwing Obama to the dogs, essentially trying to take down a man who has more character in his bones than Wright seems to have in his fluttering hands. posted 04/30/2008 at 15:49:07

Why I Am Supporting Barack Obama

One more "thank you" to add. (I notice only one negative so far out of many positive comments.) posted 04/30/2008 at 13:29:41

Gates: New US Carrier In Gulf A "Reminder" To Iran

We'll be destroying Iran (bombing the shit out of it and it's people) before the end of the year. I'd put all my money on that. posted 04/30/2008 at 11:17:27

Was Barack Obama's Response To Rev. Wright Persuasive?

1. He is who he is, what you see is what you get. He's not an angry man. He's a man grounded in values that Americans used to believe were our soul -- honesty, integrity, humility, grace, optimism, and generosity. He cares deeply enough about this country that he's willing to face the most difficult test, racism and racists, get through it and run for the most public office in the world.

This is not a petty or vindictive man. This is a man (finally) with the character of a true statesman in a country that no longer values that quality in a "leader of the free world." We've voted for and been damned for putting in office the most glaring example of an anti-statesman for nearly 8 death-spiraling years, a man-boy pretending, "playing house" with his country and the world, disrespecting the people of this country, thumbing his snotty, elitist nose at us with his actions and attitude.

(To be cont.) posted 04/30/2008 at 11:33:52

(continued)

2. Now more than ever we need a person in office who transcends the petty shit, but who isn't out of touch with why it's there, and the people willing to throw it at him. He's anything but naive. He's not out of touch with how we as a country got to where we are today, our history and our soul. He has not ignored the least fortunate of our country, he has a history of actually working with them to help themselves, on the ground, in the trenches . We used to value that in a person, but we're now willing to throw him to a pack of dogs. Where is our sense of dignity and self respect that we would allow that to happen? accept a boy-man in office for 8 years and yet so easily kill our chance to put someone in his place who could help make us human again, whole again. His opponents "pale" in comparison. posted 04/30/2008 at 11:11:37

Obama, Not Wright, Is Obama's Worst Enemy

No, no, no.

He threw Obama off the train and under an oncoming semi. Being dismissive of and demeaning Obama as "He's a politician doing what a politician does....." Nice. Real nice.

I had no problem with what Wright was preaching, even in those sound bites, because I understood what he was talking about.....our government getting away with mass anihillation over the years. (Although his blaming the spread of HIV/AIDS in the AA community, and spreading syphillis in tests using AA soldiers was stretching reality way thin.) I was feeling truly sympathetic with him until Moyers and the just-a-politician comment, then then not at all after his other 2 speeches and clowning. He called out the press for being fools (and they have been), but he joined their ranks in the past week. posted 04/29/2008 at 21:07:51

Have You Left No Sense Of Decency?

Do you look like a duck, do you walk like a duck? You sure sound like a duck. Quack. posted 04/29/2008 at 23:32:42

Cesca, you are simply dead-on every single, freakin' time. Merci, merci, bless you, man. posted 04/29/2008 at 23:29:32

Obama's Reverend Wright Press Conference (VIDEO)

No, it's English. Look up the word construct. Lots of ways to use it. posted 04/29/2008 at 23:24:44

Too true. But, in this country, the bottom line is, regardless of whether you're have a fat ass, are buck-toothed, a shrew, a liar, even if you are a woman, it doesn't matter because if you are a black man, particularly one who is perceived as "uppity", doesn't matter how strong you are, you lose in the end.

Incidentally, there's a big difference between "tough" and "strong." She's tough, like a Ford truck, like a Dodge Ram, like a real American thug. posted 04/29/2008 at 16:18:25

Obama has just been showing all along that he is, in fact, more of a true Christian than his ex-pastor Wright. More forgiving, more tolerant, more full of grace. posted 04/29/2008 at 16:12:02

Not only that, he wasn't preaching against Americans, he was ranting about the American Government who has been responsible over many years for much death and destruction of innocent people in countries that were never a threat to us, never did anything to deserve the all out carnage. Wright was right about that point. And crazy old uncle? No, just angry preacher, preaching in the black church preaching style. Again, you just don't get it. posted 04/29/2008 at 16:00:56

Over 30 year of preaching, sometimes up to 3x a week. Do the math! Those sound bites were from 2 or 3 sermons out of over 3,500 ! Not possible that he didn't hear those 2 or 3 sermons!???

You and others who keep beatin' this horse just don't get it. Any of it. posted 04/29/2008 at 15:56:47

Barack, Do You Think We Could Just Be Friends?

Obama has more legislative experience than Clinton. Check his Illinois State record in Wikipedia, both voting as well as bills he sponsored and/or co-sponsored. Just love the media coverage of the "unknown" candidate that hasn't been vetted. All they have to do is check out his legislative history, and if anything more were to be vetted about him after a year and a half in the race, it would have come out before. I don't want someone as vetted (soiled) as the Clintons back in the WH? What has come out about him as been miniscule compared to the Clinton legacy. posted 04/29/2008 at 18:07:50

Do you have this comment on auto dial?

Here's my auto dial:
McCain has made sure pork has been fed big-time to all his favorite defense contractors and the Offense Department over the many years he's been porking on Armed Services Committe. It's just not ear-marked to his state of AZ so it's not called ear-marking. He's a freakin' hypocrite phony blowhard little old pugilist. posted 04/29/2008 at 17:59:19

Not even Germany (I'm half, so I kin say it). posted 04/29/2008 at 17:55:18

With the flag behind it. posted 04/29/2008 at 17:54:12

Obama's 'Sister Souljah Moment'

If, if, if just don't do it. He blew it. The people who needed to see Wright on Moyers are not apt to be the ones who did. Instead, they were more apt to see his addresses to NCAAP and NPC. Better (or worse) yet, clips of it and idiot wanks on Fox.....those are the people who needed to see Wright in his calm and collected state. Even then, Wright's comment that Obama's a politician doing what politicians do, even quietly spoken, carried more weight than anything he could have said in Obama's defense.

Hillary knows she doesn't have to do anything to win back the AA base.....she has enough of the "blue collar men (and women)" racists and she's perfectly okay with running with that "race card". She makes me sick and so does Wright at this point. posted 04/29/2008 at 11:26:55

Wright's coming out with a book in the fall. I'm betting he defends himself and the black church in that book.

He needs to shut the f*** up about himself and the church OR come to Obama's defense instead of throwing him to the dogs with his "He's a politician doing what politicians do" statement.

Grandstanding, egotistical man. posted 04/29/2008 at 11:17:56

Obama's Act II: Patriotism

What the hell are you talking about? The Wright distraction, huge, may not be seen as a big deal, feh, so what, to you, but you are not speaking for the millions of "plain old white folks" who vote and were indeed swayed by the latest Wright outings (note Gallup poll dive for Obama). I see it as a big problem for Obama because the millions I mentioned above did not read his "race" speech, did not listen to it, just listened to out-of-context parts of it and, if they did read it, probably missed a good deal of it's meaning. posted 04/29/2008 at 14:21:55

Why Jeremiah Wright Is Willing To Destroy Barack Obama; This Campaign Really Is Generational

Obama is in a Lose-Lose place yet again. If he speaks out against what Wright has done to him ("He's a politician and has to do what politicians gotta do") in the past week, his AA base could abandon him, interpreting what he could say as anti the AA church. If he ignores Wright or downplays what he said (or didn't say), he'll pay for it in the press (already has) and with white voters who are even more turned off by Wright than before.

Thanks so much Jeramiah (me, me, me) Wright for nothing. posted 04/29/2008 at 11:38:28

Elizabeth Edwards Denies Endorsement Rumors

Elizabeth, Elizabeth, wherefore art thou? posted 04/29/2008 at 11:11:08

MoveOn: Obama Got Outfoxed

Obama did not "arrive through the power of MoveOn." He and his supporters arrived way ahead of MoveOn.

Depending on one's point of view, MoveOn can either hurt or help a candidate. posted 04/29/2008 at 00:27:53

He's damned if he does. Damned if he doesn't. posted 04/29/2008 at 00:21:35

Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Media Blitz Forces Barack Obama to Face the Angry Black Man Test -- Again

I have no problem with anything Wright said this a.m. (watched the CSPAN coverage), except what he repeated regarding Obama, namely "He's a politician....." for the second time, the first being on Moyers. He did not help Obama this morning. He did not help him on Moyers. Referring to him as a "Politician" and not the fine man he is, diminishes Obama now in many people's perception. Yes, he is a politician, but leaving it that ......Wright may as well have thrown him under the train. Bottom line, it was all about Rev. Wright. posted 04/28/2008 at 11:59:09

Is Obama Lincoln to Hillary's Seward?

Also, Lincoln was ready "on day one" facing the most daunting challenges in our history up to that point in time. Not bad for a country boy from Springfield, Illinois. posted 04/28/2008 at 22:16:46

McCain calls Obama insensitive to poor people

He actually grew up way more privileged that Obama, son of a Navy Admiral. Of the 3 candidates, Obama had the least "privileged" of them, with Clinton somewhere in the middle. posted 04/27/2008 at 22:54:47

How The Presidential Candidates Will Look In 4 Years: See Photos

that's exactly what I said earlier. barack will look as good as he does today in 40 years! hillary will look worse than her morph in 4 years.. posted 04/28/2008 at 15:45:51

Obama won't show nearly the amount of aging that is portrayed. This morphing is based on Caucasian aging. He might look like that in 40 years, not 4. posted 04/28/2008 at 12:18:58

Clinton's Battering of Obama Is Brutal, Bloody -- But Fair

"The attention paid by candidates to the smallest communities in states across the nation is phenomenal."

Actually, there are thousands of the "smallest communities in states across the nation" that are not being paid attention to by the candidates --- it is an impossibility. The informations they are getting is from the MSM, and a great, huge number of people in these thousands of small communities are getting their "news", "information" and "truthiness" from right-wing talk radio and Fox News. What they are getting are mere bits and bites of the total message and issues of all three candidates.

Educated populace? Information, clear and true, is what it takes to make Democracy really work. And we have anything but an educated people in this country. posted 04/28/2008 at 12:15:51

Barack Obama On Fox News Sunday: Watch Video

Obama once again in a lose-lose situation. The man just has to be pefect, flawless. Same old, same old, tired-ass nail the black man.

The media has had over a year to "vet" Obama, listen to his answers, read his books, read his web site, read Wikipedia......and yet insist on hauling out the same old, same old ignorant white questions about crap that doesn't matter, ad nauseum, that he's already answered so many times already. It's a "Let's trick him up any old way we can."

I will not hold my breath for Fox or any of the MSM to nail McCain on any of his questionable and derelict history. He's the old "white hero with a long history serving his country." Or for that matter, really get on Hillary in a serious microscopic peak at her very questionable history. posted 04/27/2008 at 13:08:57

Two Years Ago: When Stephen Colbert Mocked Bush -- To His Face

It was a great moment in history. Unfortunately, for more reasons that a hundred, we have a President with the character and personality of a spoiled frat boy with a.cruel and vindictive streak. Who knows how much more resolute Little Bush was in "his path to glory" after the knock-out punch from Colbert.

Those WH Correspondent soirees have exposed how much the press has been seduced by their proximity to power. (Remember Gregory yucking it up on stage with MC Rove?) posted 04/26/2008 at 14:59:06

Hillary Is Not A Monster

I was hooked on the heading, presuming you were offering a full-on defense of the Queen of Offense. With great relief and gratitude, you gave us what I believe is an objective look at a person willing to go to nearly any length in grabbing power and control of a government that has been rushing like a runaway train to the brink of disaster, and perhaps willing to continue the trajectory. posted 04/26/2008 at 13:56:20

Why Is It So Quiet After the Moyers-Wright Interview?

When he referred to Obama as (merely) "a politician" he lost me there. Might as well have thrown him a bone. posted 04/28/2008 at 12:21:08

No Laughing Matter: Obama Has Real Problems With Voters He Needs in November

What's the Matter with Kansas.

Obama's "bitter" and "clinging" were lifted right out of the pages of this book. From the 1960s when all hell broke loose, the world as we knew it flipping every which way but "right" was a nightmare for people who did not share so many of the realities of the world around them that was flying in their face, their values were being challenged. Change for most of us is scary, at least at first. Some of us resist it harder and longer than others because Change can threaten things like their 2nd Amendment rights to own a gun, threaten their belief that abortion is murder, that gays are sinful and an aberration, that foreigners, illegals of brown skin are taking over "their" country, their jobs, that liberals (socialists, Commies) were going to run the country.

That's all he needs to tell "Middle America", the America he really does represent, but happens to be the wrong color and is calling for that word again, Change. posted 04/26/2008 at 15:15:48

The Undeniable Virtue of Jeremiah Wright's Pro-Blackness (and the Problem with Pro-Whiteness)

I got some previews, more snippets, on CNN on Thursday night that made me dread what was coming the following evening on Moyers. That preview was a group of three "respected opionators", one of whom was indignant and shocked that Rev. Wright would choose this time, of all times, to speak out in his own defense, and how that could only hurt Obama. That little portion of the interview they were commenting on Wright answering the question, Has Obama ever repeated anything that Wright preached, and his answer was to the effect that, no, Obama is a "politician" doing his job as a politician and he (Wright) was doing his as a pastor. At that point, I was prepared to not watch Moyers, someone I greatly admire and have watched and listened to for years because I too was angry at Wright for what he said. I should have known better, it was CNN after all. I watch entire interview and was relieved to hear Wright speak of his history as well as his church. Unfortunately, it was just a bit of his history. He will continue to be villified by people who choose to perceive him in the tiny pidgeon-holed YouTubed picture and not the larger, much larger man who has been a postive leader in the community, a true Christian being slandered and hated by many who call themselves Christians. They will never get it, a loss for them as well as our country. posted 04/26/2008 at 14:41:41

I'll let others argue with nearly everything you said preceding the last paragraph. Blacks from any other country but ours do not have the shared origin of slavery in their psyche, a profound difference. The advantage for them is obvious to me (a white). posted 04/26/2008 at 14:11:36

Media Jump Ship From Obama To Clinton

Like rats. Chickens. Geese. posted 04/25/2008 at 00:40:13

James Carville: Barack Obama "Hides Under The New York Times Editorialists' Skirt"

That statement is on a par with Imus calling Obama a pussy. These guys so threatened by a beautiful black man they have to resort to school yard trash talk? Pathetic. Grow up boys. posted 04/24/2008 at 19:04:04

Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean May Intervene In Dem Primary

Maybe no McCain pork/earmarks, but voting for gross sums allocated over the years to his Defense Dept. cronies and their suckling pigs. A whole lotta "legitimate" pork welfare.

Looks like a pig, walks like a pig, talks like a pig, must be a ..... posted 04/24/2008 at 17:04:09

Keith Olbermann: Most People In News Are Not Smart Enough For Analysis

And Hannity is friendly with O'Reilly, an unrepentent a-hole.

One can be "friendly" with someone whose on the same committe as you are, but that does not equate to being a "friend." He wasn't friends with the guy!

If guilt by association were universal, we'd all be headed for hell and damnation. posted 04/24/2008 at 17:33:58

Is Hillary Clinton Push Polling?

This is a completely juvenile reaction, I'll admit, but I truly dread the thought of having to hear that dreadful voice for 4 years, and having to see that smug, buck-toothed, fat butt, pant-suited cow makes want to run for cover. And good ole Bill to boot. Hoohah. posted 04/25/2008 at 00:49:06

Excerpts from Rev. Jeremiah Wright Interview with Bill Moyers

Greg,

I bless you every day for your postings. Thank you, thank you! posted 04/24/2008 at 15:03:05

Lorrie Lynch, Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person" Columnist, Hits Back Calling Him A Hypocrite

Intelligence is sure taking a beating these days. It seems to be outmoded at the very least. At most, scorned and villified, perceived as elitist.

Good grief, people. Be thankful there's someone with the ability to see throught the morass of B.S., the idiocy that passes for news and truthy commentary.

KO is the closest we've come to Edward R. Morrow, and I think has gone beyond what even Morrow attained, in insight and keen observations of not only the idiots and villains in power, but the humor in everyday madness and folly.

He and a handful of others are the thread many of us are clinging to. posted 04/24/2008 at 14:59:17

How Hillary Can Win

What did the rake say to the hoe?

"Hi Ho" posted 04/23/2008 at 16:44:08

Was Race a Strong Factor in Clear Clinton Win in Pennsylvania?

RACE (black) and CHANGE. Two of the scariest words for a huge number of Americans.

Take all the NASCAR fans, at home and in the stands.

Take all the fundamentalist WHITE believers in the pews and at home soaking up the hate-spewing, fear-mongering TV evangalistas.

Take all the wrestling fans, in the arena and at home.

Take all the so-called "silent majority", scratch the surface of their (white) skins and you have red-blooded, scared to death of anyone darker than they, racist flank.

Obama embodies all that just simply goes against everything they hold dear. He scares them. He galls them. The tragedy is that they will not listen to him and get to know him as the best person to come along in the worst of times. Because of his skin, for God's sake! posted 04/23/2008 at 11:20:26

Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream

You looked at both their web sites, but did you actually read them? "Fluff"? Really? Go back to Obama's web site, go to Issues, read all of them, then come back and tell us it's "Fluff" Dare ya.

Jaysus. posted 04/23/2008 at 18:46:51

I just wrote a cousin who happens to be Mayor of Evansville, Indiana. It addressed Obama's short-hand version of what's set forth in Tom Franks' book What's the Matter with Kansas. I wish Obama would address the subject again, not in shorthand, but in terms of history, what brought "Middle America" to the conservative side. He needs to define it. The fear of change, the threat to the core values and beliefs of Middle America. It started in the 60's and just built and became more reinforced with each administration. CHANGE is not welcomed by people who fear change, who perceive change as a threat. Change needs to be defined as something more secure and positive for all Americans, not something to dread. Hillary understands this. She's subtly and more obtusely lately playing on this fear of change. She does in fact represent the familiar (even if it stinks). McCain does too (even though he stinks). The MSM will bring it up again, as will the Repubs if he wins the nomination. He needs to answer them. posted 04/23/2008 at 18:32:08

Pennsylvania Exit Polls: Primary Results

If she'd had his money going in, do you think she would have put it in the bank and not spend it? But, I forget, she doesn't whine. posted 04/23/2008 at 01:10:55

Thoughts on Pennsylvania, Clinton and Obama from a "Realisticrat"

The visceral reaction to Hillary has everything to do with the person herself. People have had a negative reaction to her from day one, long, long before the campaign even began. To blame it on Obama supporters is sad, desparate even. posted 04/22/2008 at 19:41:43

"Supreme ugliness" of the race ahead? And you think the Repubs won't relish the thought of going supremely ugly on Billary? You gotta be kidding.

Jumping up and down they are for that very chance. They hate her. Truly hate her. As far as I can tell, the Repubs do not hate Obama; most would simply rather McCain win in the end. posted 04/22/2008 at 19:36:36

The Toxic Thinking of the Right Infects the Body Politic

Arianna, my admiration for you never falters. You have been dead on with each and every post. Thank you so much for you voice.

Your friend, and someone I greatly admire, Gore Vidal....will he ever again contribute a piece for us? Please say "yes". posted 04/22/2008 at 18:52:00

Straight Talk? You Decide

As a 3rd generation Arizona "native", fortunate to have been raised in Tucson in one of the most beautiful deserts in the world, the Sonoran desert, I'm familiar with Don Diamond's rape of this fast-disappearing gem. Our rich, diverse, delicate echosystem is being mowed to the ground, replaced by a sea of cookie-cutter subdivisions and all of the pollution that goes with this onslaught, displacing and killing wildlife native to this area, all because of local, state and, in the case of McCain, federal governments too greedy to care about the destruction they've wrecked.

The name Don Diamond in this part of the country, for people who love the Sonoran Desert, is synonymous with Greed and Death. posted 04/22/2008 at 15:39:29