No wonder Bill hates Barack.

Hat-Tip and courtsey to Mamalicious

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

The Bottom Line

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.

John McCain has Country First Bass Ackwards

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.

More Change we can Believe in.

Remember all that fuss about Obama’s Father’s Day speech?

No, probably not.  It was foolishness anyway, so let’s move on.

 

In this article by the American Prospect, you can find a good idea of the kind of weight that Obama wants to put behind the rhetoric.

 

Whatever the cultural or political reasons for Obama’s high-profile Father’s Day speech, behind the rhetoric is a new way of thinking about fatherhood. Obama is advocating for a specific agenda designed to remove barriers that discourage fathers from paying child support, eliminate policies that punish married couples who are working to get off public assistance, and grant public funding to proven nonprofit organizations that help men transition into better jobs, including those re-entering society from incarceration.

I read articles like this ne and I get almost apopleptic (yes, literally) about the overall discourse that exists in ths campaign.

I don’t need 24 blog posts about how YT don’t like me and my cousin.

I NEED folk to REALLY cut through the foolishness and get into the TRUE substance of it all.

It is out there, I promise you.  Let’s get after it, people.

Change I believe in.

I am not worried about Barack Obama running the wrong campaign.  I am worried about America being too stupid/shortsighted/bigoted/smallminded/plain old scared to vote with their brains and not their gut.

Real Talk, Real Quick

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.

They almost pulled it off. Obama-Biden it is.

You just cannot keep secrets anymore.  But damn if Team Obama didn’t try.  They whispered about it…connected the dots…but they refused to break it.

Their restraint speaks to the airtight nature of the Obama campaign.

Once the Secret Service was dispatched to the Biden family, it was impossible to hide.

But it didn’t break until after the 11:00 news cycle, so for all intents and purposes, People will wake up to this news, they didn’t go to bed with it.

On a Saturday, a 9am text can EASILY be the wake up call to regular folk.

So on a certain level, The roll out was a success.

Personally, I LIKE Joe Biden.  I had the opportunity to interact with him a few times while I was on the Hill and I found him more than amiable.

Part of me wanted it to be someone else only because THEY initially said it would be him.

End of the day, if Obama says it’s Biden.  I am okay with it.

On: Leaving the Hens to guard their own house

So, NY Oil has come out and endorsed The Green Party Ticket.

I ain’t mad at NYO.  If he feels that strongly about his vote, by all means, he should put his ballot where his inalienable right is.

What troubles me about his lil monologue is that it totally misunderstands the context and the power of government.

NYO is miffed because Obama advocates a measured and non-confrontational approach to issues such as the Sean Bell verdict.

Uh….Barack Obama  is looking to be the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of these United States.  The notion that he should be some sort of Political Gadfly in ADDITION to said Chief Law Enforcement Officer is indicative of a humongous problem I have always had with the Hyper-Progressive movement.

This notion that the president be some kind of crusading activist in chief is part of the reason I find myself, for all my personal nationalist bluster, settling in as a hard core political moderate who wants his government to be competent and allow the activists to speak the appropriate truth and move the government’s core competence to activate that in the national interest.

Now for the analogy:

If you have a hen house, not only do you not want to put a fox in charge of securing it, you don’t want to put a HEN in charge of it, either.  You put a Rooster in charge of it.

*Pauses*

How about we step back from any potential gender manhole I could be wandering into by allowing me to assert that I am talking specifically about HENS as Female Chickens and not as some kind of stand in for some random Patriarchalness.  If you KNOW me then you know I don’t get down like that…If you DON’T Know me then now you know.

*plays*

What’s wrong with having a hen guard your hen house from Foxes?

They are HENS.  Hens lay eggs and raise chicks…Their role is not to protect anyone from anything.

Foxes?  well their role is to wreak havoc and destroy the hen house.  Certainly can’t have THEM protecting the hen house.

That leaves the good ole roosters.

Roosters purpose is to create eggs and protect the hen house.  They aren’t much for nurturing or caring for the hens…they exist to maintain the delicate balance.  Help the hens do their thing and KIM.

In this rather tortured and free alcohol powered analogy, Folk like NY Oil, Rosa Clemente and to a lesser extent, Cynthia McKinney, are hens.  Their role in life is to nurture and activate (torturous verb alert) for a better society.  They lay the eggs of ideas and concepts and nurture them to fruition.  they maintain the hen house.

Folk like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are Roosters, interested in furthering the viability of the hen house, protecting it from without and within.  The fact that he would advocate peace and patience in the face of injustice is just what certifies him as a Rooster.  I would expect nothing less.

Your Bushes, McCains, Cheneys, and…looks around…Bob Johnsons of the world are Foxes; those who, in the name of protecting the hen house, exploit it and drain it of its resources for their own selfish purposes.

We need to let the roosters be the roosters and let the  hens be the hens.  Let the hens lay the eggs of progress and nurture them, and allow the Roosters to let those Eggs grow to be the Roosters and hens of Tomorrow.

Obama Hits McCain hard while on Vacation

This may sting a little.

Jay Smooth for three…Swish.

Jay Smooth is KILLING y’all.

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