InkogNegro 2.0

Three hours later…I am still trying to sort through the emotions.  I have seen my share of history, and to be honest, I have seen more bad than good.

Today.  There is no doubt.  This is the greatest historical moment of my lifetime.  I am appreciative that my Grandmother, who was born before the advent of radio in a segregated Washington, DC, was able to live to see this day; a day that I never thought I would see myself; a day that I thought my young children would have the chance to bring about, appeared almost over night.

America elected a man who embodies all that is good about this nation.

I would like to take this moment to acknowledge Senator John McCain, who showed a grace in defeat that was reminiscent of all that we hold admirable in him, but has been sorely lacking in the past few years.

Senator McCain, you are a great American and I honor your service and appreciate your candor and grace in defeat.

As for your supporters, I will ignore my own impulses and exercise the grace of my President-Elect and encourage you to join us in advancing the fortunes of our great country.

There is much to do and I hope you are as anxious to engage in the process of the next step as I am.

I am emboldened by his words and I look forward to the next step in this improbably journey.

But first…allow me to enjoy my moment.

This man hasn’t a clue of what he is doing.  Not one?  Doesn’t he read the paper?

 

Previous presidential transition efforts focused on vetting would-be appointees, assembling hefty policy briefing books and making sure politically reliable operatives were assigned as liaisons to departments and agencies. That’s largely the path Democratic candidate Barack Obama has chosen, assigning dozens of advisers to working groups. The participants have strictly delineated responsibilities and must abide by specific conflict-of-interest rules.

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John F. Lehman Jr. during the Sept. 11 Commission public hearings with high-ranking officials from the Clinton and Bush administrations, in 2004.

But aides say Sen. McCain’s transition team, headed by former Navy Secretary Lehman, has a different, less-structured approach. Mr. Lehman and a small group of aides are concentrating on the logistics of swiftly taking control of the U.S. national security apparatus.

If Sen. McCain wins on Tuesday, aides say his transition effort will be partly geared toward getting Congress to approve the top four dozen or so national-security appointees during the first month of a McCain administration.

Sen. McCain is reluctant to set up formal transition teams for individual departments and hasn’t asked for specific recommendations of possible appointees, according to aides. They said that at this stage, domestic agencies aren’t the top priority and the team is staying away from compiling formal lists of candidates for choice jobs. Instead, aides said, Mr. Lehman’s plan focuses on the mechanics of bringing a new administration up to speed on the most pressing intelligence questions, terrorism-related developments and broad national-security issues.

It should get mighty good in the hood come Noon EDT today.

www.keatingeconomics.com

This will OWN the news cycle tomorrow.

More as the video gets released.

Here is the deal.

You have a rabidly unpopular bailout plan that 33% of folk hate because they feel like they are getting stuck paying for a party they weren’t even allowed to attend and 33% of folk hate because someone told them too, even though they have only a passing idea of what it actually means.

John McCain made a BIG deal this morning about how he saved this thing and got it done.

Except it ain’t done.

Barack Obama made a point of layin low and trying to stay out of the foolishness,  supporting it tepidly at best, because near as I can tell, he KNEW it was ricketty and after watching McCain run out on the plank so far, he decided the safest plan was to simply mind his Ps and Qs and stay on his grizzle.

So, here we are, no bailout, Dow down 700 600 575, a Jewish holiday tomorrow, and pretty much nothing good has come from this so far.

And whose fault is this?

Pick a name out of a hat, and you would probably be right.

What part of the game is this exactly?

It isn’t just that John McCain is trying this, it is HOW he did this.

As I see it, the chronology is as such.

1. Obama calls McCain seeking a joint statement of principles.

2. McCain calls Obama back and agrees to issue the statement and then suggests that perhaps the debate be postponed and campaigning be suspended.

3. McCain then goes to the media and says that he wants to press pause on the campaign.

*record skips*

Damn Homey, in 2000 you was the man homey, Da Fuck happened to you? (Jackson, Curtis, 2002)

John McCain ain’t about Country First.

John McCain is about WINNING.

This faux statesmenlike behavior is transparent.

Suspend the campaign in the name of “Country first”

Postpone the debate in an effort to “rise above politics”

*raised eyebrow*

John McCain is not fooling a soul.

ESPECIALLY not Barack Obama.

This just might be over now.

Reading this interview from Time Magazine sounds a lot like the kind of conversation that the Side Chick has with her sugar daddy when the sugar daddy gets heat from his wife about how he needs to cut of the side chick or else.

[Your] campaign today is more disciplined, more traditional, more aggressive. From your point of view, why the change?
I will do as much as we possibly can do to provide as much access to the press as possible.

But beyond the press, sir, just in terms of …
I think we’re running a fine campaign, and this is where we are.

Do you miss the old way of doing it?
I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Really? Come on, Senator.
I’ll provide as much access as possible …

In 2000, after the primaries, you went back to South Carolina to talk about what you felt was a mistake you had made on the Confederate flag. Is there anything so far about this campaign that you wish you could take back or you might revisit when it’s over?
[Does not answer.]

Do I know you? [Says with a laugh.]
[Long pause.] I’m very happy with the way our campaign has been conducted, and I am very pleased and humbled to have the nomination of the Republican Party.

Dude even broke out with: “Do I know you?”.  wow.

I keep waiting for dude to say either “I thought we were going to be together.” or “But that’s not what you said when we were together last night”

This may sting a little.

After taking a long weekend for the Fourth, I wanted to drop this little nugget of genius (not MY genius)

This was put out 2 weeks ago (shouts to  The Audacity of Dope)

He got more good ish.

Submitted with no comment necessary:

Watch it and pass it on.