DISQUS

Jack and Jill Politics: WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS?

  • Pwaggie · 1 year ago
    Yes I do believe that Congresswomen Tubbs-Jones is fair game. I believe the last sentences of this post is a sign of things to come. I think that Jackson-Lee, Rangel, and Tubbs will see challengers very soon, if not in 2010 the next term. The thing that trips me out is that they depend on blacks voters in their area voting for them because they are black and they don't want to extend that same benefit to Obama. Please! It would be very interesting if a white, latino, asian, whomever challenged them. Would they say vote for me because I am black and your black? Don't go against the grain? Just my opinion.
  • Anonymous · 1 year ago
    W. Virginia and Kentucky are going to vote McSame in the fall. Her victories there are meaningless. I never wanted her to run in the first place, knowing somewhat how her campaign would conduct itself. But I really never thought her and Bill would sink to the dog whistle levels they have.


    mikefromtexas
  • Ms.Martin · 1 year ago
    CPL


    Everytime I hear one of her speeches that are really arguments to the superdelegates, I think this bitch is crazy, does she really think she is going to win without the black vote.



    That is the jest of it, she does not have the black vote. She ran off the black vote while appealing to the racist mentality of of some white voters.



    The woman is evil.



    She's still saying that Obama can't win even though he's kicking the shit out of her.



    Not only is he winning but he won with a strategy that she didn't see coming, he's managing a better campaign, raising more money and drawing more crowds, yet she's still saying he can't win.



    If I could just see her I would have to tell her how dispicable she is.
  • TruthSeeker · 1 year ago
    Well, isn't KY a red state? When you say they would rather vote for McCain, are you talking about Democrats?


    The Democratic party is playing with fire. I guess the Republicans and Bush haven't put their di*ks far enough up their asses yet. As a matter of fact, I will say the same for those so-called blue collar white /appalacian

    voters...whatever category they fall into.



    Today I was thinking that Hillary has morphed herself into John Edwards, the champion of the poor. Then a sec ago a pundit said the same thing. Serves John right, he sat on his hands and allowed Hillary to play body snatchers with his message.



    In her speech tonight, she said she's been fighting for the downtrodden all her life! LOL
  • Anonymous · 1 year ago
    Poor Barack. Live by the racism sword (with blacks voting 9 to 1 for him in practically EVERY state to date), die by the racism sword (KY and WV).


    And his surrogates like Donna Brazile have been race-baiting 24/7 since Iowa, starting with the laughable "outrage" over Bill Clinton calling Obama a "kid". Yeah, that was really a "racist" thing to say. LOL.
  • Ms.Martin · 1 year ago
    Anon


    Poor Barack? You mean the Democratic nominee for President of the United States of America who will be your president.



    Ha Ha!
  • Anonymous · 1 year ago
    From the article - "Obama only won clearly among blacks."


    Obama should've been vetted before the primaries instead of during them...
  • TruthSeeker · 1 year ago
    ms.martin,


    did you see the last Couric interview? Hillary said that the AA vote would be unified with her as nominee because they'd take a hard look at McCain not voting for MLK holiday and vote democrat. HA!



    Tonight in her speech, she made a point to relate a story about an AA woman volunteer..she was careful to say the woman's race. The implication is that she still has a chance with black people.



    Obama pulled in 31 million in April
  • Kitty · 1 year ago
    Poor Barack. Live by the racism sword (with blacks voting 9 to 1 for him in practically EVERY state to date)


    For the 50 millionth time, Hillary had at least 60% percent of the black vote locked up until her and dear hubby starting blowing the dog whistle in SC. I would tell you to research this on Google but I wouldn't want you to strain yourself.
  • Ms.Martin · 1 year ago
    Anon


    And oh nobody really gives a fuck about WV and KY that's why those stupid racist mofos are down there starving and without jobs.



    They're just to stupid to know Bill sold them down the river years ago all while he was smiling in their faces and Hillary's back to stick and smile in their faces.
  • TruthSeeker · 1 year ago
    There's nothing "poor" about Barack!
  • Ms.Martin · 1 year ago
    Truthseeker


    I didn't see the Couric interview, but I heard that fake ass shout out.



    If she's as smart as everybody says she is, she knows it's over with the black vote. I guess she'll have a few Tubbs-Jones, Rangel and Johnson.



    We can show her better than we can tell her.
  • Leota2 · 1 year ago
    Stephanie Tubbs Jones is most definitely fair game
    to lose her congressional seat. With that said---Tubbs Jones has every right to support Clinton, but when Hillary started the race baiting and out and out nod to the white point hood crowd she needed to take her black ass back to the hood and look at her constituents faces.

    Anything for a job in D.C. huh Steph?!

    As far as I'm concerned, she's toast . . . .
  • D. · 1 year ago
    Know what it says?


    That Obama lost KY and WV. That's it.



    Every time Obama loses, it's because of something not having to do with him. This week, its been race. The usual recurring theme.



    It couldn't be that voters in WV and KY just didn't like his policies, could it?
  • Ms.Martin · 1 year ago
    Oh, I forgot, not even as Veep.
  • isonprize · 1 year ago
    I would love to move to Ohio, if only to organize a campaign against Stephanie "Handkerchief Head" Tubbs-Jones.


    She is probably the main one telling Ms. Anne that the 'negras will vote for you, now don't you worry. We'll just have a big rally in Harlem. I'll let 'em know that you and Bill will be coming back. They'll be right there.'



    Side note: I am no fashionista, but will someone please tell her that the shiny dark blood-red lipstick/gloss is not becoming.
  • isonprize · 1 year ago
    Now, I can half-way forgive Charlie Rangel because she is his US Senator.


    Though he is still a blowhard, his choice was a pragmatic choice. If she won, he was in. If she loses (which she is) he can say he stuck with her. His azzz had better campaign hard for Sen. Obama, or his seat may be in jeopardy also. From what I understand, Harlem ain't playin' with him.





    Sheila Jackson-Lee and Maxine Waters? I don't begin to have a clue...
  • TruthSeeker · 1 year ago
    Hillary needs a stylist bad.


    Hey, who believes that she really pulled in 22 million in April. My gut tells me that includes money for the General...about 20 million.
  • jelana · 1 year ago
    And oh nobody really gives a fuck about WV and KY that's why those stupid racist mofos are down there starving and without jobs.
    -------------------------------------

    Really Hilarious!! LOL!!
  • Ms.Martin · 1 year ago
    D


    I am so sick of your dribble about nothing. Check the exit poll voting and other facts and come back with an argument.
  • Torrance Stephens bka All-Mi-T · 1 year ago
    u scare me 4 u act suprised
  • miss-opinion · 1 year ago
    To the annon poster with the race bating accusation.... I'd respect sarcasm if you had the balls to actually put a name to your nonsense.
  • TruthSeeker · 1 year ago
    isonprize,


    I think all those dinosaurs should be voted out of office. Barack gave them an opportunity to rise to something great. They could have turned their backs on the old self-serving politics and made themselves relevant. But, they chose the low road. Does anyone believe they are capable of representing the new generation and guiding them through the 21st century?



    I hate biblical allegory, but it makes me think of the parable of the bridegroom. The black leaders forgot what they were fighting for, got complacent and forgot to trim their lamps. When Barack showed up, they were asleep. They dismissed him as another Jesse or Al.



    What happens with the next AA who dares to win...'cause you know they're coming! The virgins have got to go!
  • D. · 1 year ago
    Truth,
    Point me to an exit poll from KY that shows that people didn't vote for Obama because of his race.



    I'll wait.
  • Ms.Martin · 1 year ago
    D


    Truth didn't say that, I did. Simply turn on a television.
  • Ms.Martin · 1 year ago
    What is Chris Matthews doing tonight.


    He just asked Harold Ford to tell him about the election in TN (that he lost because the Repubs played on him liking white women) and how he told him the Brady effect was no more.



    He's even smiling while he's asking.



    He and Joe Scarborough are double teaming him.
  • Nquest · 1 year ago
    Chris Matthews is back out on the mound tonight and he's throwing heaters!!!


    DNA, he's demanding your undivided attention. Yeah, the talked about Barack's "problem" in the lastest slice of the Appalachian slide but Matthews flipped it on them. A HRC surrogate got the stutters when Matthews cited the 2 of 10 KY voters who said it was about "race" and got bent because, now, more than ever it's clear that its clear unadulterated racism that no one can ignore... So why is Hillary?



    Matthews exact question was has Clinton spoken out against racism?



    Of course, that's was one of them face-the-mirror (and look at your ugly azz) questions. No answer needed. STRIKE 3!!!
  • jelana · 1 year ago
    They are saying it on MSNBC right now. Voters in Kentucky unashamedly
    admit they won't vote for Barack because he is Black!
  • Anonymous · 1 year ago
    The Appalachian corridor, a territory that includes OH, PA, WV, parts of NC, and even parts of NY and GA. These voters are rural whites that have deep seated racist ass sentiments and no matter what he does, he will not win these districts. Thankfully, there are only two states where these racist fucks makeup a super majority of the voters: WV(5) and KY (8). OH and PA are a problem because they comprise a significant portion of the eligible voters in those states, but Obama can depend on large turnouts in urban areas like Cleveland and Philly to cancel them out.


    Obama can expand the traditional electoral college map by competing in GA, CO, NV, VA, MO, IND and perhaps NC all previous red states.
  • Anonymous · 1 year ago
    If it so ok for Blacks to vote race, we should not have a problem with whites voting race. Oh, my bad, we are only... what? Twelve percent of the population of the United States. If you think that the numbers in Kentucky and Virginia were lopped sided...just wait until November. I am going to be hurt while doing so, but I am going to laugh my ass off at all of you delusional negroes.
  • Ms.Martin · 1 year ago
    Joe Scarborough just punked Harold Ford.


    He went on a tirade about why Obama wasn't going to WV and KY and knocking on doors and begging this people to support him.



    Harold Ford was speechless and looked embarrassed and Chris Matthews smirked.



    I personally would not campaign in a racial territory where my opponent has primed the hatred.



    Why? I would go where people might listen. I'm sure he has a plan to get voters without them.
  • TruthSeeker · 1 year ago
    D,


    I didn't say that, but I would suggest to you, that those people are not expert in economic matters. I would also suggest that the crabs in the barrel phenomenon extends across racial lines.



    THOSE(poor whites) people think that liberal policies will benefit THOSE people(poor blacks)....but what the poor whites don't realize is that they're poor too!!!!



    They prefer to identify with rich whites, and the economic ideology of rich whites...'cause white is supposed to mean rich! 'Cause the unthinkable alternative is identifying with poor blacks. It's class/race warfare.
  • Ms.Martin · 1 year ago
    Truth


    Cha - ching!
  • Ms.Martin · 1 year ago
    Nquest


    It looks like Matthews is playing good and bad cop all by himself.
  • Nquest · 1 year ago
    If it so ok for Blacks to vote race...




    It's a good thing you wrapped that fantasy with the appropriate make-believe identifier... *IF*



    *IF* that bs made sense.

    *IF* there was such a moral equivalence.

    *IF* there was comparable polling data.



    1, 2, 3!! YOU'RE OUT!!!



    Chopping brocolli...
  • D. · 1 year ago
    It's all sad, really.


    Can't have an argument on the issues.



    But whatever works for you all.
  • Vanessa · 1 year ago
    Anonymous and D,


    We've been over this before-- you are mistaken about what racism is. It is not racist for black people to vote Obama, just as it's not racist for white people to vote Clinton. Black voters identify with Obama and his unusual experiences as a black man in America, and he has reached out to them continually. Most black voters supporting Obama would likely have voted for Clinton as well, but with less enthusiasm as she doesn't share their life experiences and hasn't courted them in the same way. Obama gives an inner-city group his civil rights policy proposals; he has death-penalty reform and voters' rights on his record. He's their candidate in every way.



    The racism comes in when people, including some (certainly not all) Clinton supporters, refuse to vote for Obama based on his race. Go look at the KY exit polls.



    On the bottom of the very first page:

    In a Clinton/McCain matchup for the general, 17% would vote McCain. Of those 17%, 53% voted for Clinton. That's over 9% of her votes in the primary that wouldn't choose her in the general.

    On page 4: Was race of candidate important to you? 21% admit, yes. Of those, 81% voted for Clinton.

    So I'm not saying that all voters in Kentucky are racist. Kentucky is a pretty nice place and I've never met a mean person from there.

    But 17% of voters in the exit poll sample voted for Clinton at least partly because she is not black.
  • Admiral Komack · 1 year ago
    CNN says Obama has won majority of pledged delegates (1,627 of 3,253).
  • Big M · 1 year ago
    This is OT, but I've meant to ask this for awhile.


    Why, on the front page, is there half-eaten Watermelon? Seems to me that would only perpetuate black stereotypes.
  • Ms.Martin · 1 year ago
    Anon 6:47


    You must be one of those UNEDUCATED, hard-working Americans, white Americans whose to stupid to vote your pocketbook.
  • Vanessa · 1 year ago
    I should clarify what I wrote about the "Limbaugh effect".


    That's over 9% of her votes in the primary that wouldn't choose her in the general.



    What I should have said was that over 9% of total voters picked her in the primary without intending to vote for her in the general. Of Clinton voters, that's nearly 14% [9/.66].



    I regret the lack of clarity.
  • Anonymous · 1 year ago
    LOL!!!!!!!!!!
    I am sorry JJP folk that I have to post anonymously--this is anon 6.34



    These racist fucks are coming out of the wood work. In November, Old man McBush will get trounced, and hopefully Bob Barr will run and siphon votes in the south opening up some red states like GA, MS, and LA.



    Since some of u idiot fucks are mostly low info voters, we will get a white person to go into some of those Appalachia districts and hint that he is REALLY in charge and hopefully enough of u will get fooled to keep your numbers down and sensible folks (new voters and the educated) will balance out the rest.



    President Barack Obama, get used to it---two terms
  • Anonymous · 1 year ago
    Rurals working class whites are idiots who consistently get fooled into voting against thier economic interests by the GOP. If u are making less than 40K and live in west bubble fuck virginia, the Repub econ policies does not include u..never has, never will.


    I was watching 60 mins and this dude was on..he lost his job (NAFTA casualty) and is currently without health insurance. His wife has some terminal disease--dude was crying and when they asked him who he was going to vote for what did he say..



    I LIKE what OBAMA says but I HEARD HE IS A MUSLIM and doesn't pray with the Bible...
  • Dermar 2.0 · 1 year ago
    Pssst....


    Everyone listen up!



    I heard that Barack Obama's wife is BLACK!!!!



    YOU HEAR THAT BLACK!!!



    No one has ever won President of the UNITED States without being married to a white woman!



    Sinerely,

    Hillary Clinton!
  • Ms.Martin · 1 year ago
    Change is coming!
  • smoothie · 1 year ago
    I from houston orignally, I can tell yall with absolute certainty that S-Jack.Lee will not keep that seat in 2010. She'll hold on to it now b/c she blasted the other dem running agaist her away in the primary (his. and white guys with no chance of carrying her district)


    Now, on to the larger issue of race. I dont know if anyone caught the larger issue. That entire backwoods region from WV, KY, SOUTHERN-OH, AND beyond all white and rural have no intention of voting for a blackman. Theres no other way that can be spin. Complete strangers told pollsters overwhelmingly that race is an issue.
  • TruthSeeker · 1 year ago
    Hey! I looove me some watermelon!!


    It's cool and refreshing, and delicious on a hot day!
  • Ms.Martin · 1 year ago
    Is KY the last state that's polled to go for Clinton?
  • texas girl in l.a. · 1 year ago
    ms. martin,


    no. puerto rico is slanted towards her.
  • Ms.Martin · 1 year ago
    They called Oregon for Obama and the polls just closed.
  • Ms.Martin · 1 year ago
    Is Obama including FL and MI as they stand in the majority delegate count?
  • LucieLu · 1 year ago
    I am a religious JJP reader as well as a Kentuckian, although I prefer to identify myself with my city, Louisville.


    Barack Obama won Louisville by almost 12,000 votes. Louisville is the small progressive mecca in Kentucky, where you will find a large (relatively) Black population, a thriving gay community, and a strong democratic base. We spoke up and said we wanted Obama. Yet Hilary decided to give her acceptance speech from here.



    KY is my home but I am seldom proud of it when it comes to our votes. In 2004, we voted by 87% to ban gay marriage and virtually every other form of civil union, gay or not. If you travel outside of Louisville most people think Barack Obama is a Muslim and cannot be convinced otherwise. Those who don't think he's Muslim probably dislike him because he is Black - that's enough.



    Exit polls suggest that KY voters feel Clinton represents their value - what values are you claiming Hilary? Because from living in Kentucky my whole life (25 years) I can tell you those values brought to the voting booth most often are racism, homophobia, and religious intolerance.



    You should be very proud of your victory, Hilary.



    But know this - here is one white woman who did not vote for you, and in my city, I are NOT alone.
  • justice58 · 1 year ago
    dermar,


    You made me laugh out loud!
  • Phillip M. Bailey · 1 year ago
    Let me back up my fellow Louisvillian, lucielu.


    Hillary wins Klantucky --- Louisville needs to secede



    Out fundraising Hillary by a ratio of 3-to-1, beating her 52 to 44% by 12,000 votes, our blue oasis in this red desert once again must suffer from being tied to this assbackward bullshit.



    Yet in Orego, Barack split the white-working class and white female vote.
  • Elephants&Flowers · 1 year ago
    Be Careful and Conscious!


    Just as Hillary Clinton's actions are only hurting her (campaign, reputation, etc.)



    Our own anger and frustration will only hurt and impede us. Follow Obama's lead. This campaign is just getting started.



    As Ghandi said "Be the change you wish to see in the world." In other words...



    B(e) Obama





    (Admittedly corny...but its how I feel.)
  • texas girl in l.a. · 1 year ago
    Great to hear from you Lucielu!


    Thanks for giving us the insight about your hometown.
  • Ms.Martin · 1 year ago
    Chuck Todd just said 118 of 212 uncommitted superdelegates are from states Obama won.


    Nancy Pelosi is one of them.
  • Ms.Martin · 1 year ago
    Good to hear from you Lucielu and good to know you support Obama.
  • texas girl in l.a. · 1 year ago
    ms. martin,


    I heard Chucky as well. Found it pretty interesting. Let's see what happens. But I have a good feeling they are going to come out for him. Unless, they get a $1 million bribe from one of that woman's supporters again.
  • honey01 · 1 year ago
    @ D,


    I think sometimes you just post rhetorical questions or suppositions just to be argumentative. It does not really appear you are trying to engage in a substantive debate and offer a different perspective. Your comment regading which polls indicate voters are voting on race, well EVERY single one! It does not take a stastician to interpret the results. Let's see if I can break this down without the assistance of Chuck Todd. If the ONLY two democratic candidates positions and policies are rougly identical (most will stipulate they are), while the voters of KY and WV indicate that the reason they overwhelmingly voted for HRC is "because she shares their values" (in addition to race). However, these same voters have also indicated should she not be the Democratic nominee they will not vote for Obama. Hmmm. I think I will ask my own rhetorical question here. Which one of these candidates is different from the others?

    I mean really, will McCaine suddenly represent their values?



    @Ms. Martin,

    Chris Matthews is pretty much being on point tonight. I wish he would behave like this more often. Equal opportunity a-hole.
  • BigAssBelle · 1 year ago
    with that nitwit andrea mitchell on there all wide-eyed and innocent, asking how on earth kentucky voters would think to say that the repetition of HUSSEIN! HUSSEIN! HUSSEIN! was a problem. and where could they possibly have gotten that from? must have been from those terrible internet sites.


    they spread this shit and then wash their hands of their work.
  • rikyrah · 1 year ago
    Black folk need to take care of the Clinton Negroes.


    Period.



    CPL,



    You were ON FIRE TONIGHT...LOL
  • andyfrombrooklyn · 1 year ago
    elephants and flowers, you are right. yet the lies about the popular vote metric are damaging and must be vigorously contested on the merits.
  • rikyrah · 1 year ago
    CPL,


    I saw on SB that you noted that the one downside to Russell Feingold as VP was that he wasn't able to keep a wife.



    I was thinking, does Webb being on his third wife disqualify him?



    Or is it Feingold being SINGLE that knocks him out?
  • rikyrah · 1 year ago
    CPL,


    Here's a post about the Governor of Montana
  • Disgusted · 1 year ago
    The joke about this Clinton 'saga of wins' in Kentuky and W. Virginia-- these people are supposedly so under educated that they probably still think the ability to read and write well, is a curse. That Clinton would use those as her base to lead this country is simply astounding.


    Not to mention the fact, she actually thinks should they (DNC) give her the nomination, Blacks will line up to support her-- given all the race cards pulled by The Clintons.



    That Clinton moved to New York state to start her campaign for the White House is even more telling, given what she has 'revealed as the true person" over these many months. After using Bill to enable her to rise to the top-- based on family ties only , she now claims her loss (campaign without inspiration) and fight is about sexism. What a joke! She is so power hungry I am sick. Only in Kentucky where literacy is a curse, could it be acceptable that two persons from the same family, and one in particular, is handed the presidency, because the rest of the 320 million Americans are so dumb. Talent and know-how remains with one group only.



    Hillary will lose if she is selected as the nominee, and when again she runs in New York given what I have learned, she will be challenged. She is a poor example of a Democrat and should be allowed to be the VP for McCain.



    Barak keep your distance-- the only way you may survive this onslaught.
  • andyfrombrooklyn · 1 year ago
    disguted, according to exit polls the people of kentucky/west virginia are not stupid, just mean and racist.
  • The Christian Progressive Libe · 1 year ago
    Rikyrah:


    I think you mixed me up with someone else regarding Feingold's potential as a VP. I don't think his being single is an issue, personally, cause half of Congress is on their second or third spouses.



    Everything else you said is on the money. LOL
  • Against Race Politics · 1 year ago
    There was something else I found interesting about the exit polls other than 2 out of 10 people admitted to total strangers in the exit polls that race was an issue for them and they voted for Obama (what about the ones too "Christian to admit the truth??) is that those same people were polled and a vast majority of people in WV and Kentucky admitted that they felt that Obama WOULD be the nominee so to me that suggests they obviously voted AGAINST Obama.


    Andy,



    You stated that the exit polls showed that the people from KY and WV were not just stupid but were mean and racist. Could have fooled me! Did you see the interview of Klay(Clay) Kounty(County) Kentucky? I hate to say it but those people I think actually appeared more ignorant than some of those in WV. Some said they had never voted b/c no one cares about them and they are never gonna have anything. One woman's income was $700 per mo!! Her son ( I think) who lived with her could not get a job b/c he didnt have GAS to get to an interview! They said they don't ever remember a presidential nominee visiting them EVER. Said they will always be broke and it didn't appear that any of that group would even vote at all!!
  • Anonymous · 1 year ago
    I was thinking, does Webb being on his third wife disqualify him?
    ------------





    All I know is when Webb was campaigning in Virginia, he made sure to hide his pregnant Asian wife until after he won. LOL



    For the record, I don't think anyone's marital status should disqualify someone from the Presidency. Haven't we had some bachelor presidents in the past?