DISQUS

Jack and Jill Politics: Report from the Ground in Harlem and NV; Obama Calls Bill Out

  • natthedem · 1 year ago
    Video from Obama's speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church is now available:


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf0x_TpDris



    Amazing.
  • justice58 · 1 year ago
    "Translation: Bill, you be lyin!!! And I don't care if you were the president, if your momma was the president, if you're still the president right now. I'm calling you out, son"!!
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    Love the translation! There you go!
  • D. · 1 year ago
    Obama got more delegates than Clinton, right? So why are people complaining about irregularities if your guy won?
  • tryexcellence · 1 year ago
    But is it too little too late? Bill has been and is going to be the rogue gangsta that he is in order to maintain power (I mean help his wife).


    In my opinion, Barack's failure (or better yet Barack not having his own rogue to go toe-to-toe with Bill) to address Pimp-Daddy Bill cost him New Hampshire and may cost him South Carolina.



    Although Barack does appear to have more character that do either Bill or Hillary, he does need his own Bob Johnson to remind Americans of watergate, Monica gate, and all the other gates in which Billary found themselves involed in the 90s. Just my opinion.
  • rikyrah · 1 year ago
    The translation is hilarious. I also love the link to What About Our Daughters. I loved it.
  • JenJen · 1 year ago
    What TryExcellence said...


    And the video link from What About Our Daughters of Obama supporters in Harlem warmed my heart. Standing out in the freezing cold to say Harlem For Obama!!!!
  • Jack Turner · 1 year ago
    @D what a great question. Basically, "why complain about vote bullying even if your candidate won?"


    I cannot speak for all Obama supporters, but for THIS supporter it's important to call out injustice even (and especially) in the case of victory.



    You call it out because it's WRONG, not just because you may have suffered from it.



    An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.
  • Nanette · 1 year ago
    Excellent speech.


    I also think Bill has done Obama a favor by being out there soooooo much and so prominently, in attacks on Obama.



    No matter how mild mannered he is, he IS a younger Black man competing against an older White woman, which right away sets up a... scenario, of sorts, in some minds (which is one reason, I believe, the choke or tear or whatever it was was so effective, besides all the blather spewed by the media yapping heads).



    With Bill now out front, co-running and part of the package, Obama can now go after "the Clintons", or even just after the attack dog, Bill - and through him, Hillary - with none of the "Black man threatening White woman" stuff.
  • The Bag of Health and Politics · 1 year ago
    John Kerry should be used to go toe to toe with Bill. In fact, John Kerry should challenge Bill to a debate.
  • D. · 1 year ago
    Thanks, jack.


    By the time Obama gets done with the Clintons, he's gonna have no fight left if he gets the nomination.
  • Dragon Horse · 1 year ago
    Mr. Cilliza:


    I don't understand WHY all themedia personalities keep saying Hillary Clinton "won" Nevada when she did not when the majority of delegates.



    This is like saying "Gore" won the 2000 presidential election.



    In any case Obama just dropped a new national ad, its tight.



    http://link.brightcove.com/services/

    link/bcpid353515028/bctid1385609375
  • Anonymous · 1 year ago
    Jack, was wondering if alongside the "Clinton attacks Obama" wiki, there was a similar wiki for "Obama techniques to nail the Clintons" (or the KKKlintons as I guess the designation is going).


    People around here suggesting the idea of African-Americans in SC grabbing cell phone camcorders and hidden cameras, pretending ambivalence but then rattling the Clinton staffers and nailing them on video-- this and another ideas are outstanding, I just wonder if they're getting the necessary attention. We have to spread the word-- any such Wiki?