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Michelle Obama
She accepted their invitation. Will happen sometime this week during the Centennial Celebration of Alpha Kappa Alpha in Washington, DC.
Just wondering.
LOL
Monday, July 14, 2008
AP's star reporter to Karl Rove in April 2004: Keep up the fight.
Joe Sudbay (DC) · 7/14/2008 08:21:00 PM ET · Link
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The donuts are starting to make more sense.
Last month, at the Associated Press meeting with the presidential candidates, Obama was referred to as "Osama" -- McCain got a box of donuts from Liz Sidoti and her boss, Ron Fournier. They got the right kind: "Dunkin Donuts with sprinkles." And, McCain got coffee "with a little cream and a little sugar" the way he likes it, too. Sidoti explained that she and Fournier used to spend a lot of time on the bus with McCain. Jed has the the video.
It was a bizarre, but telling exchange.
Sidoti's boss, Ron Fournier, AP's Washington bureau chief, is profiled at Politico today on the new "style" he's bringing to AP.
Fournier was also involved in another bizarre, yet telling exchange back in April of 2004 -- right after Pat Tillman died in Afghanistan.
TPM Muckraker revealed that Fournier and Karl Rove were email pals. Oh, sure, Rove emailed with a lot of reporters. But, how many reporters wrote to Rove "Keep up the fight." This e-mail was dated April 23, 2004 -- right smack in the middle of the presidential campaign.
The Associated Press: In 2004, "Keep up the fight." In 2008, "Dunkin Donuts with sprinkles."
http://www.americablog.com/
Recently, Cindy has changed her demeanour slightly. Probably in response to Michelle's rave reviews after "The View" appearance. I sense a degree of snide competitiveness in Cindy...no way can she let a black woman beat her.
People like D. and Karmi love all war all the time with other peoples' kids, unless their kids are gay then they don't have the right to fight and die for their country.
Friendship with D. has it's benefits.
Obama: My Plan For Iraq
Obama's Common Sense Iraq Policy
http://www.theseminal.com/2008/07/14/obamas-com...
Bernie Mac: Hypothetically Speaking
Mac had a family show on tv that lasted for a while. He knows how to make it family friendly and when to let loose...
Excerpts from a Dog's Diary
* 8:00 am - Dog food! My favorite thing!
* 9:30 am - A car ride! My favorite thing!
* 9:40 am - A walk in the park! My favorite thing!
* 10:30 am - Got rubbed and petted! My favorite thing!
* 12:00 pm - Lunch! My favorite thing!
* 1:00 pm - Played in the yard! My favorite thing!
* 3:00 pm - Wagged my tail! My favorite thing!!
* 5:00 pm - Milk bones! My favorite thing!
* 7:00 pm - Got to play ball! My favorite thing!
* 8:00 pm - Wow! Watched TV with the people! My favorite thing!
* 11:00 pm - Sleeping on the bed! My favorite thing!
Excerpts from a Cat's Diary
Day 983 of my captivity.
My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects.
They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while the other inmates and I are fed hash or some sort of dry nuggets. Although I make my contempt for the rations perfectly clear, I nevertheless must eat something in order to keep up my strength. The only thing that keeps me going is my dream of escape.
In an attempt to disgust them, I once again vomit on the carpet.
Today I decapitated a mouse and dropped its headless body at their feet. I had hoped this would strike fear into their hearts, since it clearly demonstrates what I am capable of. However, they merely made condescending comments about what a "good little hunter" I am. Bastards!
There was some sort of assembly of their accomplices tonight. I was placed in solitary confinement for the duration of the event. However, I could hear the noises and smell the food. I overheard that my confinement was due to the power of "allergies." I must learn what this means, and how to use it to my advantage.
Today I was almost successful in an attempt to assassinate one of my tormentors by weaving around his feet as he was walking. I must try this again tomorrow --but at the top of the stairs.
I am convinced that the other prisoners here are flunkies and snitches.
The dog receives special privileges. He is regularly released - and seems to be more than willing to return. He is obviously retarded.
The bird has got to be an informant. I observe him communicate with the guards regularly. I am certain that he reports my every move. My captors have arranged protective custody for him in an elevated cell, so he is safe. For now . . .
By failing to survey cellphone-only voters, pollsters could be undercounting Barack Obama's support by millions of voters.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/07/14...
Another reason to hate Michelle "man I wish I were a white - I hate myself for being asian" Malkin
In a perfect world, Carville and Jackson would be sentenced to chisel Obama's balls into Mount Rushmore with inadequate tools.
They need to get a fun hobby.
http://halfricanrevolution.blogspot.com/2008/06...
Barack Obama's campaign is known for its fundraising success. But today, campaign manager David Plouffe sends out a message to supporters warning of Republican dominance:
The McCain campaign is bragging that they are out-raising and out-spending us.
By collecting huge checks from Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs, they raised more money than ever before in June. Combined with the Republican National Committee, they now have more than $95 million in cash on hand.
I recorded a short video in my office about what we are up against. Now is the time to step up and make your first donation to help us close the gap.
Please watch the video and make a donation of $25 now.
The RNC has been quietly gathering funds at private events. The Democratic National Committee, meanwhile, was broke by the end of last year and still lags far behind.
Watch the video here.
https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/...
You're right about that. Why do you think marriage is called wedLOCK?
To make it difficult and humiliating for women to get birth control...as in when "faith based" pharmacies refuse to sell it, or "faith based" doctors refuse to counsel unmarried women on birth control. Society is engineered to make child bearing without attachment to a man difficult and a punishment to discourage women from being autonomous and leaving relationships that are abusive.
WedLOCK!
May it die a horrible death....unless both parties agree they want to be locked.
T.
Hit The "SEND" Button One More Time
A guy was just on with Andrea "Lizard Woman" Mitchell who's a "Democratic Strategist", and he said that the O campaign should both ignore it and address it. WTH do that mean???
Maybe you were.
I am merely a vessel for the amusement of the gods.
;)
we wear the masks right?
The Obama Spin for the Day and probably month because they have nothing else is that Obama said one thing before he was the presumtive nominee and anothing thing after securing the nomination. It's either that or "we don't know the "real Obama" or "we don't know what he stands for". It's the media we have instead of the media we wish we had. The American people aren't stupid. We aren't going to fall for the Media okey doke, you know the same okey doke that gave us George War Bush and war in Iraq. The best way to beat the media is to stop watching. Step away from 24 hour cable news. It is not our friend. None of them.
Annoy the media elect Obama.
The Real-Life ‘24’ of Summer 2008
It kills me how people pat themselves on the back for discovering how transcendant Barack is ... and in their next breath, are questioning his very character when he makes good on his promise to be transcendant.
But overcoming double standards is nothing new for Barack (or those who truly support him).
Spoiler Alert
Ah..truth, like a cool, fragrant breeze on a hot day! So, Bill Clinton the asshole - as seen in this primary - is not really the charming, talented politician they say he is. Really, what is so charming about sticking your penis into a young woman's mouth in the oval office? It strikes me as rather coarse and boorish. There's something crude and primitive about administering a state prison blood program that takes blood from visibly sick prisoners, stores it in broken down refrigeration then selling it to countries for blood products. There's an obsenity to the number of people who died in Rwanda, those who died from the tainted prison blood, and the young woman subjected to a closeup of Bill's pale, cellulitic thighs(very unusual in a male).
Bill clinton, the walking engorged penis....throbbing, angry and red faced with a head of white, white hair...his corona of semen.
Bill has transcended the restrictive bounds of genetics, a genetic mutant...becoming asshole and phallus in one.
Isn't that the truth...it is also very racially done. Someone on my blog just pointed out how excited the world is about ANgelina and Brads baby and yet there is no wedding ring between them. It seems how and who we police has a lot to do with what value we place on certain bodies.
having problem with the link. article is at OpenLeft
This article is an eye opener. It tells me that Jesse is pissed because the faith-based initiatives program Obama supports will hold the recipients accountable, and that works against Jesse's money making hustle.
You can bet the house on that one... (well, as foreclosures are happening, maybe you don't want to bet the house...)
Jealousy is a mutha... Just ask Phila Mayor, Michael Nutter...
Or how about Harold Ford, as some of ya'll have taken to calling him, the Dark Sith...
Birth of a nation or progressive nation? Is there a difference?
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid...
I would bet that the marjoirty of the people who "don't" think this is a big deal or not african american or muslim american.
I don't blame the artist, it's the editors of the new yorker who decided to run with this caricature. But I can't say that I'm surprised. The New Yorker mag subscribers are the mainly white liberals, who may see the satrie in this, but I would bet if the New yorker had a larger number of african american subscribers, then they would have thought twice about putting this image on the cover.
The sad thing is that being an African-American myself the idea that we are supposed to not be upset "because it's satire" is bullshit!! If this image was on the cover of "the national review" or on the front page of some right wing hate site, then would we still be told to "see the satire" in it.
I've learned that there are 2 types of funny when it comes to racial insenstivity: 1) funny HAHA, and 2) funny, sad. to most african americans who woke up this morning to hear/see this cover, it's definitely not funny HAHA to us.
Besides, to some people the Sambo image was satire too. Should I not be upset by that either.
http://www.racialicious.com/2008/07/14/the-new-...
An excerpt:
"I define hipster racism (I’m borrowing the phrase from Carmen Van Kerckhove) as ideas, speech, and action meant to denigrate another’s person race or ethnicity under the guise of being urbane, witty (meaning “ironic” nowadays), educated, liberal, and/or trendy. This racist and sexist balderdash that’s the New Yorker cover fits squarely into that definition"
Look for a "shocker" a week later.
Neither have won the GE, which isn't until November 4.
And all evidence points to the Emperor Dim Son stealing the nomination from McMumbles and the GE from Gore in 2000, then stealing the 2004 GE from Kerry with voter shenanigans in Ohio, thanks to Ken Blackwell. As the late George Carlin said, Eh hee.
http://www.funwithwarcrimes.com/
And this: http://allhatnocattle.net/7-11-08_karl_rove.htm
So, this guy thinks this is satire, and it's "Colbert in print" ....Ha! He wishes!
Wolf said if he hadn't heard it was New Yorker, he would think it was a KKK magazine that had published it. Go Wolf.
Wow.
They Didn't Get the Memo that Slavery Was Over
I suspect I now know what probably happened to him.
The movie, Life, starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence did a mediocre job of depicting this.
Thanks, GoldenAh.
People like D. and Karmi need to understand the true cost of Iraq. Katrina, Afganistan, dead soldiers, orphaned children...on and on.
we were not acquainted back then; so, if I did express pity, you would not have known it.
Ok, so you're objectifying me as an American Democrat which is ok for argument's sake. Clinton dropped the ball on many things. I am not defending him.
It will be a miracle if you ever criticize anyone for your own ideological spectrum.
People like D. should not make assumptions about the fitness to comment on said injust war, one criteria being whether that person has lostfriends in war.
And if you did, did any of them tell you that they understood why there were in Iraq/Afghanistan, and what they were there to do, and that they believed in the same?
It is irrelevant what you IMAGINE soldiers believe they are in Iraq to do. We already KNOW there are no WMD, we already KNOW Iraq was not a threat; therefore, responsible, moral behaviour dictates that the war be brought to an end, quickly.
When I talk to Gold and Blue Star families who tell me their sons/daughters/husbands/wives believe in what we're doing there, it isn't imagination.
When I recieve it in emails from friends-and now, family-who are there currently, it isn't imagination.
Don't ever attempt to project what you imagine on me, especially when you have no idea when my information comes from.
If it makes you feel any better, one of my best friends disagrees with me wholeheartedly about the war. We argue about it at least weekly, and I'd still go through hell for him and him for me. Hell, I disagree with smoothie/djchefron here, but I still call them brothers (or sisters, if apporpriate).
Eddie Murphy's new movie takes in only $5M its opening weekend: Here's Why You Don't Care About Eddie Murphy.
So sad.
Someone with a promising, successful career who, at some point, decided to keep doing the same. damn. thing. over and over and OVER and made himself irrelevant.
Donkey/Jimmy Want Mo' will continue to get paid to make movies, hit or miss.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGxBY7uBEW0
C-Span
Tonight, 10:59 PM EST
Overnight, 3:08 AM EST
Maybe I missed something, so I'll go read it again.
Not this time.
It is always humbling to speak before the NAACP. It is a powerful reminder of the debt we all owe to those who marched for us and fought for us and stood up on our behalf; of the sacrifices that were made for us by those we never knew; and of the giants whose shoulders I stand on here today.
They are the men and women we read about in history books and hear about in church; whose lives we honor with schools, and boulevards, and federal holidays that bear their names. But what I want to remind you tonight -- on Youth Night -- is that these giants, these icons of America's past, were not much older than many of you when they took up freedom's cause and made their mark on history.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was but a 26-year old pastor when he led a bus boycott in Montgomery that mobilized a movement. John Lewis was but a 25-year old activist when he faced down Billy clubs on the bridge in Selma and helped arouse the conscience of our nation. Diane Nash was even younger when she helped found SNCC and led Freedom Rides down south. And your chairman Julian Bond was but a 25-year old state legislator when he put his own shoulder to the wheel of history.
It is because of them; and all those whose names never made it into the history books - those men and women, young and old, black, brown and white, clear-eyed and straight-backed, who refused to settle for the world as it is; who had the courage to remake the world as it should be - that I stand before you tonight as the Democratic nominee for President of the United States of America.
And if I have the privilege of serving as your next President, I will stand up for you the same way that earlier generations of Americans stood up for me - by fighting to ensure that every single one of us has the chance to make it if we try. That means removing the barriers of prejudice and misunderstanding that still exist in America. It means fighting to eliminate discrimination from every corner of our country. It means changing hearts, and changing minds, and making sure that every American is treated equally under the law.
But social justice is not enough. As Dr. King once said, "the inseparable twin of racial justice is economic justice." That's why Dr. King went to Memphis in his final days to stand with striking sanitation workers. That's why the march that Roy Wilkins helped lead forty five years ago this summer wasn't just named the March on Washington, and it wasn't just named the March on Washington for Freedom; it was named the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
What Dr. King and Roy Wilkins understood is that it matters little if you have the right to sit at the front of the bus if you can't afford the bus fare; it matters little if you have the right to sit at the lunch counter if you can't afford the lunch. What they understood is that so long as Americans are denied the decent wages, and good benefits, and fair treatment they deserve, the dream for which so many gave so much will remain out of reach; that to live up to our founding promise of equality for all, we have to make sure that opportunity is open to all Americans.
That is what I've been fighting to do throughout my over 20 years in public service. That's why I've fought in the Senate to end tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas and give those tax breaks to companies that create good jobs here in America. That's why I brought Democrats and Republicans together in Illinois to put $100 million in tax cuts into the pockets of hardworking families, to expand health care to 150,000 children and parents, and to end the outrage of black women making just 62 cents for every dollar that many of their male coworkers make.
And that's why I moved to Chicago after college. As some of you know, I turned down more lucrative jobs because I was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement and I wanted to do my part in the ongoing battle for opportunity in this country. So I went to work for a group of churches to help turn around neighborhoods that were devastated when the local steel plants closed. And I reached out to community leaders - black, brown, and white - and together, we gave job training to the jobless, set up afterschool programs to help keep kids off the streets, and block by block, we helped turn those neighborhoods around.
So I've been working my entire adult life to help build an America where social justice is being served and economic justice is being served; an America where we all have an equal chance to make it if we try. That's the America I believe in. That's the America you've been fighting for over the past 99 years. And that's the America we have to keep marching towards today.
Our work is not over.
When so many of our nation's schools are failing, especially those in our poorest rural and urban communities, denying millions of young Americans the chance to fulfill their potential and live out their dreams, we have more work to do.
When CEOs are making more in ten minutes than the average worker earns in a year, and millions of families lose their homes due to unscrupulous lending, checked neither by a sense of corporate ethics or a vigilant government; when the dream of entering the middle class and staying there is fading for young people in our community, we have more work to do.
When any human being is denied a life of dignity and respect, no matter whether they live in Anacostia or Appalachia or a village in Africa; when people are trapped in extreme poverty we know how to curb or suffering from diseases we know how to prevent; when they're going without the medicines that they so desperately need - we have more work to do.
That's what this election is all about. It's about the responsibilities we all share for the future we hold in common. It's about each and every one of us doing our part to build that more perfect union.
It's about the responsibilities that corporate America has - responsibilities that start with ending a culture on Wall Street that says what's good for me is good enough; that puts their bottom line ahead of what's right for America. Because what we've learned in such a dramatic way in recent months is that pain in our economy trickles up; that Wall Street can't thrive so long as Main Street is struggling; and that America is better off when the well-being of American business and the American people are aligned. Our CEOs have to recognize that they have a responsibility not just to grow their profit margins, but to be fair to their workers, and honest to their shareholders and to help strengthen our economy as a whole. That's how we'll ensure that economic justice is being served. And that's what this election is about.
It's about the responsibilities that Washington has - responsibilities that start with restoring fairness to our economy by making sure that the playing field isn't tilted to benefit the special interests at the expense of ordinary Americans; and that we're rewarding not just wealth, but the work and workers who create it. That's why I'll offer a middle class tax cut so we can lift up hardworking families, and give relief to struggling homeowners so we can end our housing crisis, and provide training to young people to work the green jobs of the future, and invest in our infrastructure so we can create millions of new jobs.
And that's why I'll end the outrage of one in five African Americans going without the health care they deserve. We'll guarantee health care for anyone who needs it, make it affordable for anyone who wants it, and ensure that the quality of your health care does not depend on the color of your skin. And we're not going to do it 20 years from now or 10 years from now, we're going to do it by the end of my first term as President of the United States of America.
And here's what else we'll do - we'll make sure that every child in this country gets a world-class education from the day they're born until the day they graduate from college. Now, I understand that Senator McCain is going to be coming here in a couple of days and talking about education, and I'm glad to hear it. But the fact is, what he's offering amounts to little more than the same tired rhetoric about vouchers. Well, I believe we need to move beyond the same debate we've been having for the past 30 years when we haven't gotten anything done. We need to fix and improve our public schools, not throw our hands up and walk away from them. We need to uphold the ideal of public education, but we also need reform.
That's why I've introduced a comprehensive strategy to recruit an army of new qualified teachers to our communities - and to pay them more and give them more support. And we'll invest in early childhood education programs so that our kids don't begin the race of life behind the starting line and offer a $4,000 tax credit to make college affordable for anyone who wants to go. Because as the NAACP knows better than anyone, the fight for social justice and economic justice begins in the classroom.
But it doesn't end there. We have to fight for all those young men standing on street corners with little hope for the future besides ending up in jail. We have to break the cycle of poverty and violence that's gripping too many neighborhoods in this country.
That's why I'll expand the Earned Income Tax Credit - because it's one of the most successful anti-poverty measures we have. That's why I'll end the Bush policy of taking cops off the streets at the moment they're needed most - because we need to give local law enforcement the support they need. That's why we'll provide job training for ex-offenders - because we need to make sure they don't return to a life of crime. And that's why I'll build on the success of the Harlem Children's Zone in New York and launch an all-hands-on-deck effort to end poverty in this country - because that's how we'll put the dream that Dr. King and Roy Wilkins fought for within reach for the next generation of children.
And if people tell you that we cannot afford to invest in education or health care or fighting poverty, you just remind them that we are spending $10 billion a month in Iraq. And if we can spend that much money in Iraq, we can spend some of that money right here in Cincinnati, Ohio and in big cities and small towns in every corner of this country.
So yes, we have to demand more responsibility from Washington. And yes we have to demand more responsibility from Wall Street. But we also have to demand more from ourselves. Now, I know some say I've been too tough on folks about this responsibility stuff. But I'm not going to stop talking about it. Because I believe that in the end, it doesn't matter how much money we invest in our communities, or how many 10-point plans we propose, or how many government programs we launch - none of it will make any difference if we don't seize more responsibility in our own lives.
That's how we'll truly honor those who came before us. Because I know that Thurgood Marshall did not argue Brown versus Board of Education so that some of us could stop doing our jobs as parents. And I know that nine little children did not walk through a schoolhouse door in Little Rock so that we could stand by and let our children drop out of school and turn to gangs for the support they are not getting elsewhere. That's not the freedom they fought so hard to achieve. That's not the America they gave so much to build. That's not the dream they had for our children.
That's why if we're serious about reclaiming that dream, we have to do more in our own lives, our own families, and our own communities. That starts with providing the guidance our children need, turning off the TV, and putting away the video games; attending those parent-teacher conferences, helping our children with their homework, and setting a good example. It starts with teaching our daughters to never allow images on television to tell them what they are worth; and teaching our sons to treat women with respect, and to realize that responsibility does not end at conception; that what makes them men is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one. It starts by being good neighbors and good citizens who are willing to volunteer in our communities - and to help our synagogues and churches and community centers feed the hungry and care for the elderly. We all have to do our part to lift up this country.
That's where change begins. And that, after all, is the true genius of America - not that America is, but that America will be; not that we are perfect, but that we can make ourselves more perfect; that brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand, people who love this country can change it. And that's our most enduring responsibility - the responsibility to future generations. We have to change this country for them. We have to leave them a planet that's cleaner, a nation that's safer, and a world that's more equal and more just.
So I'm grateful to you for all you've done for this campaign, but we've got work to do and we cannot rest. And I know that if you put your shoulders to the wheel of history and take up the cause of perfecting our union just as earlier generations of Americans did before you; if you take up the fight for opportunity and equality and prosperity for all; if you march with me and fight with me, and get your friends registered to vote, and if you stand with me this fall - then not only will we help close the responsibility deficit in this country, and not only will we help achieve social justice and economic justice for all, but I will come back here next year on the 100th anniversary of the NAACP, and I will stand before you as the President of the United States of America. And at that moment, you and I will truly know that a new day has come in this country we love. Thank you.
After Hillary asks the 18 million hard working white Americans for a dollar apiece to retire her debt, then she can ask the hard working white Americans to save the CBC's collective asses...
this is hilarious and on point.
I'll continue to look for it. Thank you.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/several-cbc...
Endorsing her risks ties to her son amid Obama’s promises of a new kind of politics, while not endorsing her risks a big symbolic stiff for the CBC and could jeopardize Obama’s standing in a swing state.
Hmm. Somehow, I don't think O cares.
Adolph Mongo, a political analyst and former consultant to Mayor Kilpatrick, said that Obama’s support would be a “tremendous endorsement” for Carolyn Kilpatrick in terms of the good perception it would generate amongst voters. But he suggested it might be more important for Obama.
Ha! So, Obama needs her more than she needs him?? LOL
“Barack Obama cannot afford to snub the congresswoman and the mayor,” Mongo said. “The mayor is the only one in Detroit that has the machine to turn out the vote.”
Does anyone believe that the people of Michigan would care if O snubbed the Mayor and his mother?
You ain't neva lied.... LOL.