InkogNegro 2.0

Hat-Tip and courtsey to Mamalicious

Bill Clinton HATES having to campaign for this man…Trust me when I tell you.

I shared the sadness of Team Hillary tonight.   Not because I am a Hillary fan, per se, but because my reality of Hillary Clinton (or Bill, for that matter) never seemed to measure up with what I knew Hillary Clinton COULD be.

TONIGHT we heard from the person, the candidate, that Hillary Clinton COULD be.

THAT Hillary Clinton, could have been…should have been speaking on THURSDAY, and not Tuesday.

But that Hillary Clinton is obscured by The Hillary Clinton who frittered away a mountain of institutional advantage and lost a presidential campaign to a Black man whose name rhymes with Osama.

Make no mistake, The best man won in 2008.  But the best man doesn’t always win.

And whether you wanna believe it or not, the best man SHOULDN’T have won THIS year.

But he did, and THAT’S why i share Team Hillary’s pain.

Jay Smooth is KILLING y’all.

Submitted with NO further comment, cause ain’t none necessary.

SO, Jake Tapper posts a celebrity elitist quiz like so…

Which presidential candidate hosted Saturday Night Live (hint — the musical guests were The White Stripes)?

Which one had cameos on “24” and “Wedding Crashers“?

Whose wife secretly got her pilot’s license and owns a jet?

Who is pals with Warren Beatty?

Whose daughter is friends with Heidi from MTV’s The Hills?

Whose wife once told Vogue, explaining the purchase of a 7th or 8th house, this one a beach house, “When I bought the first one, my husband, who is not a beach person, said, ‘Oh this is such a waste of money; the kids will never go. Then it got to the point where they used it so much I couldn’t get in the place. So I bought another one.”

Whose family credit cards have been known to ring up more than $500,000 in charges in one month?

and the comments go like THIS:

Trying to paint McCain with the celebrity brush is laughable – since it’s Obama and Michelle who put their two little daughters on Access Hollywood.

And since when is having legitimately earned money a crime in America? Some of Obama’s backers are so jealous with class-envy they can taste it. Wise up, people. Obama is a multi-millionaire too.

WORD?  Was Obama on the block with Rick Ross getting his paper?

And from a commenter named “Still for Hil”

It is not the matter of money it is the matter of lack of experience and arrogance.

Is that a new flavor of haterade? Or is that still sour grapes?

Ahhh the hate is just palpable, isn’t it.

The easy thing to do is to talk about how HORRRRRIBULL the New Yorker cover was.

I don’t blog to do the easy thing.

I’ll bet when Barry Blitt penned this lil ditty, he probably thought to himself…”yeah, I nailed that shit. This is off the chain.  I didn’t miss a thing. Look how complete the analysis is, down to the flag in the fireplace.  Ain’t no one seein this.  Pullitzer, here I come.”

While I am far too cheap to subscribe to the New Yorker, I read it regularly online.  It is classic Northeast Corridor insular intellectualism.  They do what they do well.  And yeah, the Cover is well done.

In a vacuum.

Out here in the real world…Blitt fucked up.

He should have talked to Spike Lee about the what happens (or what doesn’t happen) when you trot out heavy duty satire around Black folk.

Of course most folk at the New Yorker are so busy waxing geo-political and post-racial about Obama they seem to have forgotten that Barack Obama is Black man #1 right now.  What you say or do to Barack Obama, Michelle Obama or the WeeMichelles (Shouts to WAOD)

Black folk who wouldn’t know the New Yorker from a brochure for the Chrysler New Yorker have seen this cover and are…uh…Let’s just say they aren’t pleased.

On the heels of The Etherization of the Former First Black President and his Wife in the eyes of Black folk, Nuts-Gate,  and the still smoldering ashes of Tavis Smiley’s status as the King of the Black Pundits, it is becoming abundantly clear that in the eyes of many Black folk, anything that takes away from Barack Obama’s presidential aspirations is taken VERY personally.

Black folk were late to the party, remember, This time last year, Hillary Clinton was 25 points up on Obama in the polls, even amongst Black folk.  I am pretty sure that this over-protective impulse amongst Black folk is a subconscious reaction to being so late to the party.

Combine this default nuclear response to anything percieved as disrespectful of the Obama Family with the universally unmentioned fact that Obama (like Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice before him) isn’t alloted a certain regal status afforded other National level Politicians.

Barack Obama carries around issues that don’t actually exist, while John McCain gets a pass on Upgrading from his disabled wife who sat by and waited for him to come home from Vietnam to a sugar daughter who could afford McCain with the economic infrastructure to parlay his admirable Military history into a national career in Politics.

That is an everyday situation for Black folk and white folk just don’t get it.

Satire doesn’t play when people actually think what’s so over-the-top satirical is true.

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.

and the WORST part of all this is…

The Obama article INSIDE the magazine is a a revealing insight into what makes Obama tick.

But who cares about all those words when there is a pretty picture on the front.

I.Just.Don’t.Get.Y’all.Sometimes.

Posted to a Blog that died on January 16, 2007 <–note the year.

Now, let us marinate on what this truly means.

Here we have a black man man with a white mother and a Kenyan father, born in Hawaii, with a somewhat checkered past who rose through Columbia College and Harvard University Law School and the Illinois State Assembly to the United States Senate and now stands on the brink of history.

Blah blah blah.  but what does it MEAN, REALLY?

Well it means this:

For the first time in history, A man of color is positioned as a front runner for the office of president of the United States.  And he has formed a committee to explore that possibility.

More Blah Blah Blah…You aint sayin nothing to me….Give me something.  You go through all these changes to “Free” yourself and now you give me spin…..CTB….What does this MEAN?

OK.

This means everyone out of the pool…the shark is coming.  I am sure you have heard the following:

“we don’t know anything about him”

“He doesn’t have the experience”

“He can’t win because he is Black”

“He Can’t Beat Hillary”

“His middle name is Hussein”

“They won’t let him win”

Let me address these in turn.

We don’t know anything about him -  If you don’t know about Barack Obama, you don’t WANNA know about him.  He has TWO books that have been NY Times best sellers.  One is a fairly in-depth memoir that covers his background.   One is a wonkish sort that alludes to building a better America.  The man has a microphone constantly stuck in his face and is pretty much the go-to man for thoughtful progressive (liberal, for those of you who get off on such terms).  Trust and believe, if the man wasn’t the real deal, he wouldn’t be getting this kind of push.  Today, Chris Matthews said that, as a writer, he believes that if you cannot express your thoughts on paper, you cannot think.  He went on to say that Barack Obama is one of the most formidable writers of this political generation.  What Senator Obama says, comes from HIS pen.  That speaks volumes, to me.

“He doesn’t have the experience” – Experience is overrated.  Nor does Experience get you elected.  This isn’t carpentry.  This is government.  To be honest, the more you govern, the more inept you become.

Government tends to be a vacuum.  The longer you are in government, the more detached from reality you become. You lose your edge.   You lose touch with reality.  You end up doing less leading and representing of people and more…governing.  You have hearings, you hold press conferences, you go on TV, you compromise, you cease to be a representative and go to playing one on TV.

Barack Obama has been in the US Senate for 3 years. Before that he taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago. That is long enough to get a decent grasp on the practice of Government to go along with the formidable academic understanding of Government he already has.

“He can’t win because he is Black” – People will say that until it happens.  They said that about Mayor of Chicago, and Mayor of Philadelphia, and Mayor of New York, and Governor of Massachusetts. That isn’t really an explanation.  It just hasn’t happened, YET.

“He Can’t Beat Hillary” – This is a more useful argument than he cannot win because he is Black.  Hillary is the front runner because she is viewed as inevitable and unbeatable.  She is neither.  Hillary is polarizing in ways that confound the imagination, even in her OWN party.  Additionally there is a certain sense of fear that Hillary, because of her polarizing nature, can’t win the general election on her own terms anyway.  In terms of qualifications, even with the additional 3 years in the Senate and 8 years as first lady, I view them as equally qualified, exchanging the whole real life thing for the 20+ years of government life that she has been living. 

His middle name is Hussein – Stop.  Just Stop.  If you really think that is an issue, all the rest of this is pretty much irrelevant

“They won’t let him win” – who is this THEY?  If the PEOPLE want him, they will have him.  Will the fight from the GOP be any different than if Hillary wins?  Any different than last time with Kerry?  I didn’t think so.

One thing nags at me.  If Senator Obama is truly about change, the Secret Service better get on it’s game.

And that is NOT a joke.

Toldya.

Props to Jerry O’Connell (Carpoolers was funny, but cursed by being attached to that Cavemen Debacle) and a Hat Tip to TBL

Let us be absolutely clear on one critical point.

The Prohibitive favorite for the Democratic nomination (who just happens to be married to the party standard bearer) is about to lose to a heretofore unknown Black Man whose name rhymes with Osama.

All the sexism (and there has been a healthy amount) in the WORLD did not bring this about.

There are OTHER factors that created this phenomenon.  Those of you (damn near ALL YALL) who are ignoring those factors do so at your peril.

I have heard the term Useful idiots before, but I never knew from whence it came.

In political jargon, the term “useful idiot” was used to describe Soviet sympathizers in western countries and the alleged attitude of the Soviet government towards them. The implication was that the person in question was naïve, foolish, or in willful denial, and was being cynically used by the Soviet Union, or another Communist state.

The term is now used more broadly to describe someone who is perceived to be manipulated by political movement, terrorist group, or hostile government, whether or not the group is Communist in nature.

It is a bit unnerving to watch the state of West Virginia being held up as some kind of bellwether state that represents the overall American attitude.

Uh….yeah.

And THESE jokes are just a figment of your imagination.

Two West Virginians are walking down different ends of a street toward each other and one is carrying a sack. When they meet, one says, “Hey, Tommy Ray, what’cha got in th’ bag?”
“Jus’ some chickens.”
“If I guess how many there are, can I have one?”
“I’ll give you both of them.”
“OK. Ummmmm……, five?”

Today’s vote was the equivalent of a late game touchdown by a team that is down by four touchdowns. Is there time for Four Touchdowns?

In theory, yes.

In reality? Not so much.

The math is still the math.

I find it laughable that the media spent all this time in West Virginia asking them about POLITICS…under the impression that they REALLY care about them and what they think.

Obama was Lambasted for Bittergate but look at the crux of this article from the USA Today:

The following paragraphs are juxtaposed in the SAME ARTICLE:

This state of small towns is home to the gun-owning, church-going, financially struggling voters whom Hillary Rodham Clinton is targeting Tuesday. She says Obama alienated them with his remark before the Pennsylvania primary last month about “bitter” dislocated workers in small towns “clinging” to guns and religion.

Democrats outnumber Republicans nearly 2 to 1, but President Bush won here in 2000 and 2004. “It was because of three things: guns, God and abortion,” says Danny Jones, the Republican mayor of Charleston, the state capital.

“The people in the last election were persuaded by the gun issue,” said Robert Dennie, a retired Union Carbide employee, a Democrat who cast an early vote Tuesday for Clinton in Charleston. “Everybody has wised up.”

Now is the lateness of the hour making me stupid or is this the DICTIONARY definition of what Obama was talking about?

Mr. Dennie, who cast his early vote for Clinton said EVERYBODY has wised up.

By THAT logic, after Clinton sits down somewhere Obama should have no problem with all these Wised up Mountaineers and those Clinton Voters would just settle for the next best thing

*cough*

Yeah…uh huh…but NOOOOOO one wants to mention that.

Well, no one but Hillary Clinton.

To make the assumption that they would support her but not Obama when their platforms are similar over a McCain administration that can be tied to the Bush years in multiple ways implies that there are NON ideological reasons that would bring about all those votes She accumulated drifting away from HER party’s nominee.

Hell, no one else will say it…so why should I.

I think this speaks for itself.

So, back to the useful Idiots…

It seems that The Clinton campaign, having found itself on the verge of losing to not just a neophyte…but a BLACK political neophyte despite having every possible advantage in only 17 months.

AND NOW…they are clinging to West Virginia and Kentucky to embolden their case.

Useful idiots.