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Hillary Clinton is a "Spoiler" and is making the 2008 Election her own personal scorched earth, color aroused campaign that reminds this blogger of General Sherman ordering his troops to burn crops, kill livestock, consume supplies, and destroy civilian infrastructure along their path. After her loss against Barack Obama in North Carolina, Hillary Clinton, (like General Sherman in Georgia) has been determined to burn and destroy, and has issued orders accordingly. The candidate, Hillary Clinton, seems to have issue d the following proclamation:
Burn The Democratic Party
"See ya!"Woods, who helped the Chunichi Dragons reach the Japan Series, led the Japanese leagues with 47 homers and 144 RBIs this season while hitting .310.They later went on to win the Japanese World Series : Dragons win Japan Series in perfect fashion
His grand slam in the top of the 12th inning of a 9-3 win over the Yomiuri Giants on Oct. 10 clinched the Central League pennant for the Dragons.
Woods has developed a reputation for getting big hits with runners in scoring position but says he approaches every at-bat the same way.
"I try not to put too much pressure on myself," Woods said before Saturday's Game 1. "Every time I go up to the plate I think of it as an opportunity to drive in a run. I just see the ball and hit it."
Woods said keeping things simple is key to his approach at the plate.
McCain thinks the media is in his pocket. Too bad that the Independent media (like us) is not in his pocket. We're not gonna let this get swept under the table, while the pundits go ape over Rev. Wright. Last I checked, Rev. Wright wasn't calling for the extermination of an entire religion!
Well now meet Rev. Rod Parsley, the televangelist megachurch pastor from Ohio who hates Islam. According to David Corn of Mother Jones, Parsley has called on Christians to wage war against Islam, which he considers to be a "false religion." In the past, Parsley has also railed against the separation of church and state, homosexuals, and abortion rights, comparing Planned Parenthood to Nazis.
John McCain actively sought and received Parsley's endorsement in the presidential race. McCain has called Parsley "a spiritual guide," and he hasn't said whether he shares Parsley's vicious anti-Islam views. That's because the mainstream media refuses to ask. And so, we've taken matters into our own hands, joining Mother Jones to present the truth about McCain's pastor.
Since the media won't question McCain about his deeply bigoted pastor, it's up to you to call attention to this issue. Make McCain's pastor problem a major story by forwarding this video to your family, friends, and colleagues.
We can't let McCain get away with aligning himself with a religious leader who's called for an all-out war on Islam, someone who draws no distinctions between Muslims and violent Islamic extremists. Now is the crucial time to act.
Barack Obama is, by almost every measure and by almost every unmeasurable impression, on the precipice of being able to declare victory and have his declaration be accepted by the media and his party. Hillary Clinton needed to find a way to give superdelegates their "Holy Moly" moment, and she failed. Absent an extraordinary intervening event, the question for Hillary Clinton now is how she ends the race. Obama has made it clear that he will not pressure her. It's her decision.
OBAMA's MARGIN in North Carolina was three times that of Clinton's, even before the margin in Indiana narrowed. He earned more pledged delegates than she did. They're likely to see it as a vindication of their gut feeling that Obama could survive the roughest weeks of his candidacy. There is no evidence that Obama's supporters were any less enthusiastic than they were before -- and that metric, more than anything else, I think, will drive their calculations going forward. The uncommitted superdelegates are inclined to like Obama and dislike Clinton personally; they see more energy on his side than hers; they've given him the benefit of the doubt over and over again.
MAY 20 -- THAT'S the date when the campaign unofficially expects to "clinch" the nomination -- when they'll officially have a majority of pledged delegates, which triggers, in their view, the standard for superdelegate decision-making set by party leaders like Nancy Pelosi. I expect -- and the Obama campaign expects -- to see the pace of his superdelegate pick-ups increase. They expect a few superdelegate defections from Clinton as well. Within the next few weeks, Obama might well pass Clinton in the number of superdelegate endorsements. Remember, though: the superdelegates are followers. They're politically wimpy... and they like to be wooed.
EXPECT OBAMA in the next few days to prize unity above all else -- and to turn his attention away from Clinton and towards the notion of a unified Democratic Party and the race against McCain. The Clinton campaign will limp to West Virginia with just enough energy and barely any money. The campaign will point to the DNC rules committee meeting on 5/31, but DNC officials tell me that the staff recommendation provided to the committee -- a recommendation that has so far been kept secret -- is not unambiguously favorable to Clinton's interpretation of the rules.
IN RETROSPECT, the decision of Clinton to contest North Carolina and give Obama an expectations victory was costly, although many analysts, including this one, believed -- still believe -- that in order for her to really give superdelegates that moment of terror, she had to upset Obama in a state where the demographics favored him. Bill Clinton parked himself in the research triangle, Clinton herself hinted about game-changing expectations, the campaign sent their best state director, Ace Smith, as a sign of their confidence in being able to reduce the margins. To be sure, there were plenty of Clinton aides who tried to damp down expectations. Daivd Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager, tells me that he is open to negotiating a solution to the Florida and Michigan impasse; he would not tip his negotiating hand.
THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN professes not to be worried about the hardening edges between Clinton's universe of supporters and Obama's universe of supporters. But they concede that reintregrating Clinton supporters in the party will be more difficult than in ordinary cycles. At the highest levels of the Obama campaign, there is no appetite for any talk of a unity ticket so far. Still, big victories in West Virginia and Kentucky will help Clinton make the argument that she is indispensable.
Marc Ambinder
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rayrayangel: What is john king drawing now?
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mfleig: Mayor from Evansville on now... my hometown.
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rayrayangel: The Mayor from Hammond seems a bit shifty 2 me personally.
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zebtron: looks like the votes that are trickling in are obama votes 2 to 1
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rayrayangel: LULZ Why are they showing John King playing with the map and talking to
people on his Blackberry. LOL. I won't lie I am laughing hard.
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rayrayangel: NOOOOOOOO Stay on AC and crew. Please not Larry King. He will mess up the results somehow. Even his voice bothers me.
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rayrayangel: @4braham LULZ. If they did it with BSG somehow and made it interesting I'd never turn the channel off. God I am sad.
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kmakice: @geoffmckim is currently making the cut for County by 450 votes, w/ 82% counted in Monroe County
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zebtron: 11,000 absentee ballots for lake cty? and they count them last?
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rayrayangel: CBS News just bores me. The whole network bores me now that I begin thinking about it. Sorry for being so tweety tonight. This is important.
It is raging online.A growing cadre of young black activists is using the Internet in an attempt to eclipse traditional civil rights organizations such as the NAACP and hit the refresh button on the civil rights movement. Bloggers with names such as the Cruel Secretary, and blogs called What About Our Daughters? and the African American Political Pundit, have railed against groups in the "black-o-sphere," saying they do not understand young black Americans, are behind the times and react too slowly to incidents involving the younger generation.
The leaders of the fledgling movement -- Van Jones and James Rucker of ColorOfChange.org -- may not be familiar to many, but their work is. They circulated a letter and a petition last week promising that the Democrats will pay a "political price" if they overturn the will of black and young voters and choose Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y) as the party's nominee over Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.). Washington Post, May 4, 2008
Even though Black people constitute twenty percent of Democratic Party voters and twenty percent of the delegates to the Democratic National Convention, still color-aroused ideation tells white bloggers that Black voters' real opinions, beliefs and desires are not worth researching or discussing. In truth, most white-skinned bloggers couldn't care less about what goes on at afrosphere blogs (most whites bloggers don't read or link to Black blogs), and so white bloggers have no idea what Black bloggers are thinking.
Most white bloggers are as likely to be found at a Black blog as they are to visit a Black church on Sunday morning. White bloggers get most of their information about Black people from the same MSM white-news media for which the blogosphere was meant to be an alternative.
Everyone acknowledges that Obama wouldn't be leading the delegate race and the popular vote without Black votes along with the white ones. And yet only two of the fifty blogs on the MyDD "Blogroll" is an afrosphere blog. If you include the "State Blogs", of which there are more than fifty, then about 2% of the blogs two which MyDD is linked are Black blogs.
If you want to hide something from white progressive bloggers, then hide it online, at a Black blog. Just as Hillary Clinton has to HOPE that Blacks' opinions won't matter in 2008, since 90% of Blacks oppose her, so white bloggers at MyDD have to HOPE that their ignorance of the Black blog world will not put them at a disadvantage as they try to win the Democratic presidential nomination from a Democratic electorate that is twenty percent Black.
How does this effect white politicians and bloggers? If whitosphere blogs and the Clinton campaign were not so white-self-referential, then they would have realized much earlier the damage that the Clinton campaign was doing to itself in the Black community. While white bloggers at MyDD continue to argue that Obama is just as much at fault for color-arousing the campaign as is Clinton, this is an argument directed toward white people. Read More HERE
AAPP: Tell me this, why are MYDD member bloggers acting like he said something wrong? Can they not handle the truth?
“God helps those who help themselves!” – Benjamin Franklin
Reverend Jeremiah Wright is in the news again and is said to be a distraction to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, by far his most famous former parishioner. Reverend Wright has spent the last week or so giving his side of the story. Mr. Wright feels that he has been personally attacked and also feels that the institution of the black church has been attacked by the dominant American culture. He’s been referred to as a kook and described as trying to knee cap Mr. Obama’s presidential bid. Mr. Obama tried to minimize his relationship with his former pastor. But when that didn’t put the issue to rest, Mr. Wright conveniently comes back on the scene to give Mr. Obama a second chance to sever the relationship cleanly in the public’s eye.
The overwhelming majority of America never knew Mr. Wright prior to the networks airing of the infamous recording of Mr. Wright saying that god should be damning America instead of blessing America. People refer to Mr. Wright as a blatant racist although he never once said white people were the problem. Mr. Wright said black and white people are different with neither one being better than the other. But this is too racist a concept for most. White and black people are actually saying that Jeremiah Wright is the problem. No one of any prominence has given Mr. Wright any understanding or support, with the possible exception of Bill Moyers when he hosted Mr. Wright on his PBS show Bill Moyers Journal and allowed the former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ to defend himself without adding fuel to the fire of controversy. Mr. Moyers doesn’t have a political agenda to push so it is no surprise that he isn’t condemning Mr. Wright the way that the typical network pundit would.
But nevertheless, for the most part, when it comes to the black community, Mr. Wright is standing alone. Other than Mr. Moyers, I have yet to see any high profile support. Where are the leaders of the black community? Where are the people who claim to the welfare of the black community a top priority? It is a given that white people would want take the five or ten minutes of Mr. Wright’s sermons that have captured America’s attention. When Mr. Wright says god should damn America white people take this personally for America is white America. America is baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet. America is the corporate environment where white people rule the upper management, white people make up the vast majority of middle workers, and black people make up the bottom rung of the corporate ladder in janitorial services and the mailroom. To say America is messing up is to say that white people are messing up since they are the ones in control of 98% of America’s institutions. And these corporate institutions are using their resources to pick Mr. Wright apart and make him an example of what happens when you bad mouth America.
And with an election coming, and with the chance that a black man could actually obtain the highest office in America’s land, America will push with all of its corrupt corporate capitalist might to find anything and emphasize anything to keep Mr. Obama from obtaining the title of President of the United States. It is truly understandable why the dominant community would work so hard to keep the status quo of white only from being broken. Black man might become president and try do something positive for the black community. White America just can’t take that chance. So I can understand why the Tucker Carlsons and Sean Hanitys and Pat Buchanans of the world to persecute Mr. Wright, and therefore Mr. Obama by association. These are the type of people who would be content to see the despair of the black community continue without end. But where are the people who say that they have a vested interest in the uplift of the black community?
Where are the people who are more likely to defend Mr. Wright? Barack Obama tried to distance himself from Mr. Wright without outright rejecting him and it nearly cost him his lead in the presidential nomination race. There is too much to lose. So regardless of what Mr. Obama says to the contrary it is relatively easy to see how his highly visible divorce from Mr. Wright can be considered politically advantageous. So it doesn’t take much of a brain to see that there will be no comfort there. Where are the other high profile blacks who sit in black churches on a weekly basis and can relate to what Mr. Wright says about being black in America? Are we in the black community are supposed to believe that Jeremiah Wright is a lone exception with a totally unique perspective of the relationship between America and what she has done for and what she has done to the black community? Are we to believe that no other black high profile black celebrity has any idea what he is referring to? Comment and Read More HERE
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