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.
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
It looks like Senator Obama's success is starting to wear on the Clinton family. It's sad to hear that President Clinton had to pitch his wife to a quiet, half empty room. He could have gone out in style, now he looks like a 40-something basketball player trying to come out of retirement to play in the NBA - and that isn't a pretty sight!
As for Sen. Clinton, I don't know if the emotion was an act or not. But, if she was near tears, I'd bet the state of the union has nothing to do with it. She is a bit arrogant, she's probably in shock. She may have just realized she's fighting a losing battle. Perhaps she can try again in 2016!
In New Hampshire, Bill Clinton Finds Less Spark
By MARK LEIBOVICH
DURHAM, N.H. — Is this what it would have been like had Elvis been reduced to playing Reno?
Former President Bill Clinton has been drawing sleepy and sometimes smallish crowds at big venues in the state that revived his presidential campaign in 1992. He entered to polite applause and rows of empty seats at the University of New Hampshire on Friday. Several people filed out midspeech, and the room was largely quiet as he spoke, with few interruptions for laughter or applause. He talked about his administration, his foundation work and some about his wife. Read it at NYTimes.com
Clinton’s Campaign Shows Stress Before Primary
By PATRICK HEALY
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Key campaign officials may be replaced. She may start calling herself the underdog. Donors would receive pleas that it is do-or-die time. And her political strategy could begin mirroring that of Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Republican rival, by focusing on populous states like California and New York whose primaries are Feb. 5.
Everything is on the table inside Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign if she loses the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, her advisers say — including her style of campaigning, which shifted dramatically on Monday when Mrs. Clinton bared her thoughts about the race’s impact on her personally, and her eyes welled with tears. Read the full story at NYTimes.com
Today, Jan 3, is a historic day. On Jan. 3 in 1621 the first African American, William Tucker, was born in Jamestown, Virginia. In Iowa, Senator Barack Obama has already made history on this day. That’s right, whether he wins Iowa or not - which I'm sure he will - Sen. Obama is the first African American to go to Iowa as a leading contender in the race for the President of the United States. Future history books will read: on Jan 3, 2008 the first African American President won the Iowa primary. It is a very proud and exciting day for America. Black, White, and Brown people should be very elated that we can finally say as a nation, we are not judging the candidate by the color of his or her skin, but the content of their character.
I eagerly look forward to FL, SC, and GA primaries.
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