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jack is back, and i humbly thank you

Started by baratunde aka jack turner · 1 year ago

One week ago, I wrote one of the most depressing posts of my blogging career. Having seen what I wrote, a friend told me, “you can’t post that. It’s so… depressing.” Taking her advice, I revised the post and published something slightly less forlorn under the title “How Does Obama Do It?” Yes, what I [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ ... Continue reading »

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  • Christopher Chambers

    1 year ago

    Referee a little bit more on the comments of the zealots; on the flipside, exhort them to spread out and attack on the rightie or white blogs rather than vent and whine on this one. I understand this blog should be lounge, a refreshing station, a sounding board, but things have been too crazy lately.


    n.b. check the Washington Post today. Mentions your blog...
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  • mstearne

    1 year ago

    Great post Jerry McGuire!


    I'm sure a lot of people will follow you out of the office.



    When you're trying to keep up with the MSM and the issue of the day remember...



    "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." Plato
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  • NMP

    1 year ago

    It's one thing for Obama or us to criticize Reverend Wright, but not this bitch!


    I cried myself to sleep last night, but I woke with a renewed spirit to fight like hell for this nomination, and this only makes me more fired up! This bitch went on O'Reilly's show of all places to criticize Reverend Wright and Senator Obama. Hell NO!



    http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/clinton-tweaks-obama-on-wright/
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  • rikyrah

    1 year ago

    Welcome back, Jack. You know we need you! :)
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  • D.

    1 year ago

    I've been called many things in life, but never a chickenhead.


    Welcome back, brother.
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  • khia213

    1 year ago

    Welcome back! We missed you.
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  • Kitty

    1 year ago

    Welcome back!
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  • Justin

    1 year ago

    I'm frustrated and burnt out myself, man.


    But this was never going to be easy, and we need to buckle down and support Obama especially when its tough.



    I gave him $25.00 yesterday, just to motivate myself to see this through.



    He's gonna win. But it's gonna be a struggle.
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  • Anonymous

    1 year ago

    Prevent Hillary Clinton from stealing the nomination or destroying the nominee.


    This one is the MOST important. We CANNOT and WILL NOT let this happen. I just sent an email to my Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton. She is an Obama backer. And I let her know that she has to tell her people that this will not stand. There is a growing anger and bitterness over here.
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  • heartsandflowers

    1 year ago

    We are the movement we've been waiting for! I think a thorough analysis of public policy should be discussed on a regular basis irrespective of the candidates running and including the ones who are in office now. Even if cities with Democratic leadership have failed policies. I want us to be conscious, thoughtful citizens who vote for their values and hold those in office accountable. We also seriously need to support other political parties to open up the lobbyist and corporate stranglehold. For example: when most Americans have overwhelming voted for the gov't to pull out of Iraq and there was a huge wave of voters that put Democrats back in Congress they still have rubberstamped every single one of Bush's policies. We need Green and Libertarian party representation by electing them to bust up this monopoly. Every gain from the 60's that was acquired through sweat, tears and BLOOD has been pushed back b those who would oppress us. People that acquired access to make changes instead co-opted the methods of the oppressor. Why would any person who opposes the war vote for a candidate that authorized it? Why would anyone dismiss the behavior and actions of an elected official who voted against their values in the past promise to do the exact opposite when they are running for office again and BELIEVE THEM? Isn't the proof in the pudding? Some of us are looking for a Messiah to save us when we are the ones who need to save ourselves. WE ALLOW POLITICIANS TO SET POLICIES THAT HURT US! That is the single most important thing I have come to realize during this election cycle. We are in this mess because we either chose it by our actions or inactions. Our gov't has sanctioned torture, violates our rights by spying on us and doesn't respond to our own crisis. We have mass unemployment, our neighborhoods are crumbling and we can barely get an education. Why do we have to take out predatory loans for school? Why isn't the gov't providing adequate funding? Because we allow it! We should be taking to the streets, strategizing, organizing and realigning our thought processes and stop allowing others to manipulate us or pull on our emotions or fears. There is a candidate that has touched on this but one person can only do so much IF they get to the position of being able to do anything. Most of us already know this and I don't have all the answers nor am I criticizing everyone but I know this is our defining moment. I want to DO SOMETHING!
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  • jon

    1 year ago

    Welcome back! And thank you for being part of the core of this amazing community!
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  • Craig Hickman

    1 year ago

    Welcome back Jack. (Again) ;)
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  • Ms.Martin

    1 year ago

    Welcome Back Jack and thanks for the motivating and inspiring posts a lot of the "regulars" need it.


    I agree with your outlined topics and will lhelp in any way I can.



    This is the first place I'm come when I log onto my computer.
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  • Anonymous

    1 year ago

    I humbly direct you to driftglass.blogspot.com. Please check out the post for Monday 'Not One of Us'. Amazing photoshop creation. I only recently ran across your site, but now it is a daily stop. Keep up the good work.
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  • LexusOakland

    1 year ago

    Jack,
    Glad you're back... for many reasons. As an often "lurker" and once in awhile poster, I want to address you, your colleagues and the community who regularly comments and trades ideas. My friend and I had a long and almost tearful conversation on Monday. I'm a 60 year old veteran of the 60's and 70's peace movement in San Francisco; she a 60+ veteran of the Black Power movement in Oakland/Berkeley. We both checked out of the political scene a number of years ago, when it became clear to us that the political process we had so actively participated in had died, and no real change was happening in our lifetime. We closed down the well of optimism and concentrated on our own families and communities, believing that was the only venue where we could perpetuate any lasting change... Then along came Obama. We resisted for a long, long time... to actually come to care and believe in the possibility of change, and the possibility of a Black man and woman in the Whitehouse meant opening up old wounds, and as Darian Dauchan said ... Our hearts had been broken... Finally giving in, we found our hearts could still be broken...but what made it bearable this time is the host of brilliant young(er) folks... Jack, Jill, rikyrah, dnA and the many in this community and across the blogosphere who have picked up the cause and run with it. You, more even than the Senator, give us hope. We need you to keep up the fight. Thank you.
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  • N. Mahana

    1 year ago

    Jack I feel like a dunce again, I just read this post! So many were posted today that I missed this one and the open thread!


    I'm glad you are rested and ready for battle. Great blog you have here. A friend recommended it to me and I've been lurking and posting every since!
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  • Danielle

    1 year ago

    Welcome back Jack. I lurk, read and learn. I am glad that JJP is here. Your call to action for yourself is a great one for us all.
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  • Baseball Cleats

    2 months ago

    Welcome back Jack.
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  • jelana

    1 year ago

    Glad you are feeling much better.
    I am older as well, and I find all of

    you AMAZING!
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  • Lolo

    1 year ago

    Jack,


    Thank you and bless you.



    I'm tired too and I haven't done even a quarter of what you have so I can appreciate your determination to recharge and renew your sense of purpose.



    I'm just glad that this site, with all its writers and commenters has been here for us.



    To everyone else, I repeat my exhortation to phone bank, people. Go online to Barackobama.com and follow the links to making calls for our next president. It honestly does make a difference, I've had to really struggle with my usual dislike of phone convos but it's gotten so much easier and each time we sign up another volunteer that we know is going to go out and canvas or get out the vote or whathave, it brings us that little bit closer.



    She won vast swathes of western PA without one single canvasser or sign or nothing so obviously, it's a struggle but good grief, SO WORTH IT. One hour a night making calls.



    Okay, off to sleep for me but I'm telling you, this IS going to happen if we all get in it together.
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