Moral excellence should be a major consideration as we assess the candidates for president of our great nation. If this is the standard, what that are the characteristics that we should look for? Intelligence, honesty, integrity, faith, sacrifice, and a desire to “Do justly and love mercy.”
After speaking with several White and Latino women campaigning for Hillary Clinton in South Carolina, I am confident that White, Latino and Asian women will join us in voting for truth, justice, and the real American way. Many of the volunteers on the streets of Columbia, SC had to admit that the dirty tactics in this presidential race have landed them on the fence. I am sure that all of our sisters will stand with us.
The Black community has trusted White leadership for years and now we are asking White America to trust us just once. Even Oprah has weighed in. If you trusted her in the past, why not now? This is not a Black thing, it's about change. Have you ever known Oprah to recommend anything based upon race? The majority of Black women are with Barack Obama. We know the truth when we hear it. More to the point, our sister sonar detects underhanded, backstabbing, low-life, signifying liars that we need to kick to the curb.
Bill and Hillary Clinton are absolutely disgusting. This couple brags about being vetted simply because they have no shame and will say or do anything to get what they want. They have been embroiled in more scandals than any presidency in history and they are willing to destroy anyone that stands in their way. It appears that truth has no place in their campaign.
Barack is running against a mud-wrestling tag-team. It is time for us to stop letting them play the American public, and especially the Black community, like a worn out sax. We are sick and tired of their mess and the nasty underhanded tactics that even party loyalists find reprehensible. If the Democratic Party sinks so low as to reward dirty political tactics with a presidential nomination they will loose. The word on the street is that if Obama does not win the nomination, Black women will either stay home or vote Republican. There is a groundswell of Black women that will not vote for Hillary under any circumstance.
Personally, I’m tired of the race issue. That’s one of the reasons I like Senator Obama.
However, since the media decided to ask Sen. Obama an asinine question regarding Clinton being the first Black President. I have to raise the issue, once again, of what Clinton did for Black people besides play the sax – which he didn’t do so great.
To start, In addition to checking out his dancing skills as Sen Obama cleverly suggested,
we need to know how many times Clinton has be a victim of Driving While Black.
As for first Mr. Clinton, prisons across the country are busting at the seams due to “Clintonomics.” Tough-on-crime Clinton did for the prison industrial complex what union busting Reaganomics did for big business and fear-mongering Bushanomics did for Haliburton.
There’s Welfare Reform, NAFTA, and a host of legislation passed that devastated poor and working class people.
Why would the Black community want to claim one of the only 2 Presidents in history that were impeached? Additionally, I find it quite offensive that a man in that position could have an affair with a youngster and expect to be respected. It's one thing to step out, but with a naive, innocent young girl? Then to lie about it. I call it NO moral values.
And then there’s Harlem. Inquiring minds want to know where Billary stands on forcing low and middle-income people out of Harlem.
A lot of people think Mr. Clinton is down with the people because he moved his office to Harlem. What good did that do the people if they can no longer live there? Where does he stand on that issue?
In the end, Clinton played the sax and visited Black churches and won the hearts of Black folks. He's so disrespectful he just shows up at church, he didn't even have the respect to stay awake at church during the King event.
Come on people, are we that dense? Or, are you sleeping with Clinton?
I understand why White people don’t want to claim Clinton, but Blacks don’t want him either. Ask the Hispanics if they’ll claim him.
Senator Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, was in Atlanta recently and seriously represented for her husband. To those who say can a Black man be elected president, she's says he's done Harvard and the Senate, and he's ready to change America. Mrs. Obama spoke of the "light in every child" and shared her own children's perspective on their father's candidacy.(photos: Felicia Davis)
Below: Confident, poised, and enthusiastic, eight year olf Jazlyn McBride introduced Michelle Obama to a standing room only crowd at the Atlanta Commerce Club.
Somebody please call the Clinton camp and tell them they are hustlin’ backwards. Of course, as honorary Blacks they should understand the term. If not, I’ll break it down. The last person they should have pulled from their bag of tricks to put down Sen. Barack Obama and defend Mrs. Clinton is the King of Pimps and Hoes, founder of Black Entertainment Television, Robert Johnson.
Don’t get me wrong. I respect the business acumen of Mr. Johnson and take pride in his many academic and business accomplishments. However, this is a man that built his empire peddling videos packed with sexually explicit, violent, negative, and misogynistic, images and lyrics. How ironic that a female candidate for president of the US would seek the assistance of a person that women’s groups have protested for years. This is not about Johnson, it's about Sen. Clinton. Her handlers ought to know better. I’m not passing judgment on the way Johnson earned his money, just stating the facts.
Seems the Clinton camp believes that they just need to have a Black face, regardless of what that face represents. What do they really think of Black people?
According to the New York Times article, in response to Sen. Clinton’s slight on Dr. King, Mr. Johnson said,
“Dr. King had led a “moral crusade,” Mr. Johnson said, but such crusades have to be “written into law.”
I have to wonder if Mr. Johnson knows why we had to depend on mostly White people to get it written into law? Has Johnson’s money erased the realities of our past? Last time I checked, Sen. Clinton has no experience as president so all she has is a dream herself.
Isn’t it great, Senator Clinton, that Dr. King’s “moral crusade,” was realized and now a Harvard educated, upstanding, hard-working citizen with a "moral crusade" can become president and get that crusade "written into law?" BTW, isn’t even more inspiring that that visionary can run even though he happens to be Black?
Shame on Senator Clinton for trying to make this election about Senator Obama’s race. Just ugly.
Final note, CHECK THE RECORD, President Clinton didn’t do much for Black folks. That's the true "Fairy Tale".
Clinton and Obama Spar Over Remark About Dr. King By PATRICK HEALY and JEFF ZELENY NY Times
Escalating their fight for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator Barack Obama engaged in a war of words on Sunday over Mrs. Clinton’s recent remark about the role that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. played in securing civil rights laws in the 1960s.
Mrs. Clinton made the remark last Monday as part of her latest political argument that Mr. Obama was an eloquent speaker but not a proven force for change, a description she is applying to herself.
“I would point to the fact that that Dr. King’s dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when he was able to get through Congress something that President Kennedy was hopeful to do, the president before had not even tried, but it took a president to get it done,” she said. Read the full story here
SHOCKING: Hillary aligns w/ misogyny peddler!
Well we've been beaten over the head in the past week by the supposed sexist statements by Jesse Jackson Jr. My question is how are we supposed to take future claims of sexism and misogyny from Hillary supporters when she takes the stage with a man like Robert Johnson?
.... Yes real life for sure, Mr. Johnson. Unfortunately most Black people don't become billionaires promoting stereotypes and misogyny in their own community. Read it at the Daily Kos
Corpse Wheeled to Check-Cashing Store Leads to 2 Arrests
By BRUCE LAMBERT and CHRISTINE HAUSER
Even for the once-notorious Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, it may have been a first: Two men were arrested on Tuesday after pushing a corpse, seated in an office chair, along the sidewalk to a check-cashing store to cash the dead man’s Social Security check, the police said.
When Virgilio Cintron, 66, died at his apartment at 436 West 52nd Street recently, his roommate and a friend saw an opportunity to cash his $355 check, the police said.
They did not go about it the easy way, the police said, choosing a ruse that resembled the plot of “Weekend at Bernie’s,” a film about two young men who prop up their dead employer to pretend that he is alive. Read the full story at NYTimes.com
Civil Rights Tone Prompts Talk of an Endorsement by Carl Hulse New York Times
WASHINGTON — Representative James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, the highest-ranking African-American in Congress, said he was rethinking his neutral stance in his state’s presidential primary out of disappointment at comments by Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton that he saw as diminishing the historic role of civil rights activists.
Mr. Clyburn, a veteran of the civil rights movement and a power in state Democratic politics, put himself on the sidelines more than a year ago to help secure an early primary for South Carolina, saying he wanted to encourage all candidates to take part. But he said recent remarks by the Clintons that he saw as distorting civil rights history could change his mind.
“We have to be very, very careful about how we speak about that era in American politics,” said Mr. Clyburn, who was shaped by his searing experiences as a youth in the segregated South and his own activism in those days. “It is one thing to run a campaign and be respectful of everyone’s motives and actions, and it is something else to denigrate those. That bothered me a great deal.” Read the full article here
Over the years I gotten my best laughs listening to some of the phone pranks perpetrated by early morning radio hosts. This one is from the Steve Harvey Morning Show and they are in rare form. Nephew Tommy calls an elder from church the usher board to discuss her attitude. Anyone that's ever come in contact with an usher at a Black church can imagine what he was in for. Take a minute and enjoy a good laugh.
Here's an intuitive article on the psychology of Black folks as it relates to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. One thing I would add, the Dean of the civil rights movement, Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, has been an Obama supporter from early on.
From the Blog, "Why Black Women Are Angry"
As it relates to Obama, there are those who are quick to say that Obama is both Black and white and that the white portion of his heritage is being discounted. These well-intentioned, but ill-informed individuals fail to realize is that we have a country with a very recent history that says with one drop of Black blood, you are Black. In other words, when a cab in New York has passed Obama, more than likely they did it because they saw a Black man. They didn't stop to ask if his Daddy was Kenyan or if his mama was of Irish descent. Black is black in this country. That's the way it's been and that is how we as a society have been socialized - especially if you have any connection to the south.
With all this said, I must admit, I have been a bit curious as to why more African Americans have not come out and publicly supported Obama. Read more here
Just when we’re seconds away from realizing Dr. King’s dream of Black’s and Whites standing side-by-side, instead of putting on boxing gloves, it looks like the Clintons are putting on their white sheets. As a descendant of slaves, I was always taught to watch the White folks who smile in your face and try to convince you how “Black” they are. I respect people who are honest and admit to certain prejudices. If they don’t like me, they have that right. To be honest, I have a few prejudices of my own. I prefer tall men.
As for the Clintons, now that their campaign is beginning to unravel, seems their true colors are coming to light. Here we are, ready to celebrate the birth and life of a global icon, and Senator Clinton finds it appropriate for a presidential candidate to diminish the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a man admired by people of all races and nationalities.
Seems Mrs. Clinton thinks Dr. King merely had a dream, but Lyndon B Johnson got it done.
I wonder what Ambassador Andrew Young has to say about Mrs. Clinton’s “rhetoric vs reality” approach.
According to Fox News
Clinton said “Dr King’s dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the civil rights act of 1964… That dream became a reality, the power of that dream became real in people’s lives because we had a president who said ‘we’re going to do it,’ and actually got it done.”
Just for Mrs. Clinton’s information, I doubt that LBJ would have done much but for the work of Dr. King and other civil rights leaders including the late, great Congressman Adam Clayton Powell.
On the Bill Clinton frontit gets sadder by the minute. According to the New York Times (The Clinton Camp Unbound), the twice-elected president of the free world said of his wife’s opponent, Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign, “This whole thing is the biggest fairytale I’ve ever seen.” I have to agree with writer Gene Byrd, “It can be argued that Bill Clinton knows a thing or two about tail."
Bill Clinton Rips on Barack Obama: 'Fairy Tale'
By Gene ByrdJan 8, 2008
It can be argued that Bill Clinton knows a thing or two about tail. But does the former president know anything about 'Fairy Tales'? He certainly believes so and he is furious that he is not on his way back to the White House with his wife Hillary Clinton leading the way. new hampshire was supposed to be Hillar's second big win and they would dump that pesky Obama. But right now, it certainly looks like Hilary is down 0-2 to Barack Obama. No one has yet called New Hampshire for Obama but he should win by at least five points.
Byrd continues:
Bubba ripped this off with a microphone in hand. "It is wrong that Senator Obama got to go through 15 debates trumpeting his superior judgment and how he had been against the war in every year, enumerating the years, and never got asked one time, not once, well, how could you say that when you said in 2004 you didn't know how you would have voted on the resolution, you said in 2004 there was no difference between you and George Bush on the war, and you took that speech you're now running on off your Web site in 2004, and there's no difference in your voting record and Hillary's ever since?"
Poor Bubba! He sounds like a fool and is such a poor example of how an ex-president should behave. Read the full story here
Oouch!
I can't understand why a former president would want to taint his legacy by reducing himself to a campaign manager. An angry one at that. I can't imagine that any other president in history would run around the country slinging insults in order to get back into the White House. You have to wonder if he and his wife suddenly remembered something they failed to take with them when the vacated the premises at the end of their reign.
Although I don’t think President Clinton did the Black community much good while he was in office, I must admit that I found him to be a likeable fellow. He couldn’t get my vote, but he got my sympathy with his adultery scandal. But right now, President Clinton and his wife come off as very desperate and it's not a pretty sight. Certainly not presidential.
Whether Sen. Clinton's tears were real or not, I don't want a woman who cried her way into office. The fact remains, a large section of the population believes women are too emotional to be leaders. Please Ms. Clinton, don't reinforce that stereotype to gain sympathy from voters. It's degrading.
I compared it to a former NBA player coming out of retirement, but now I think they’re more like Mike—Mike Tyson that is. I just hope the other candidates are packing earmuffs on the campaign trail, there’s a couple of biters on board.
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