America’s Next Black President

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I’m Just Saying,
Cathleen

WE CAN
VOTE!
WE CAN VOTE
FOR CHANGE
WE STRIVE ON
HOPE
WE ARE
THE PEOPLE
JUST
HAVE TO
GO VOTE!
8YRS OF BUSH ,THEN 4 FROM
MCCAIN
IF YOU DON’T VOTE , YOU CANT COMPLAIN
IF YOUR SILENT VOICE
MEANS MORE OF THE SAME !
WE NEED
A NEW PRESIDENT
THE TIME HAS COME
FOR CHANGE
BECAUSE
JOHN MCCAIN IS
THE SAME OLE SAME
GEORGE W. BUSH ALL OVER AGAIN

YES WE CAN

BARACK OBAMA 2008

FOR CHANGE

copyright2008 WDMII

Don’t take my word for it, John McCain may have been involved in a fatal car crash in 1964 that caused the death of another person. The investigation is being blocked by the US Navy. Why is this relevant after 44 years? Well, it might not be if it had been disclosed or dismissed in the early days of the election. If McCain was comfortable attacking his opponent for events that happened when he was 8 years old (Obama was 8 when Ayers was involved in terrorist activities).
I think this needs to hit the airwaves, just like everything else does, and allow McCain to address it and allow “my [his] friends” as he calls the American people, to be the judge. .
Check it out for yourself in the Huff Post here.
I’m Just Saying,
Cathleen

Check out the Calypso song and video. Very telling and very nice!

I’m sure you all have heard about the waffle boxes that were sold at an event co-sponsored by Focus on the Family with Obama’s caricature oin the front making him look like and Uncle Tom and Aunt Jemima type…well have a look. Anyway, it is NOT an urban legend it’s all true. A friend forwarded me the apology from Focus on the Family. The apology is poste

If you have not seen the waffle boxes that were sold at an event recently co-sponsored by Focus on the Family, click here. It is true, it was real. They did it. Here is the apology. Thanks to Melanie for forwarding this on. Ms. Harris is a pastor in the Cleveland area who wrote to Focus on the Family asking for an explanation after she heard about the Obama Waffles on “The View.” If you recall, a few weeks ago I wrote about a video that Focus on the Family media director produced asking Christians to Pray for Rain on the night of the Democratici Convention when Obama was to deliver his acceptance speech. Focus on whose family??? Obviously Focus is not focusing on people of color. They need some diversity training and some serious prayer.
I’m Just Saying,
Cathleen

————————————————————–> Comment on recent political event> > > Discussion
Thread>—————————————————————> Response (Ron Hall) - 09/19/2008 08:04 AM> Thanks, Mrs. Harris, for your e-mail. We> appreciate your sharing your concerns about reports> that a product called “Obama Waffles” was available> at the Values Voter Summit.> > We agree that this merchandise was in poor taste. > It’s important to note that this item was sold by a> vendor and was not specifically approved by the> organizers of this event. When FRC Action, the> primary sponsor of this gathering, became aware of> this content, they asked the exhibitors to dismantle> their display and remove their materials. As the> primary conference sponsor, FRC Action accepted the> responsibility of approving vendors in advance and> has apologized for its failure to adequately perform> this
task.> > Again, thanks for writing. Your willingness to come> directly to us with your reservations and to allow> us to address this matter means a great deal. Grace> and peace to you!> > Ron Hall> Focus on the Family Action> >

Customer - 09/18/2008 10:35 AM>
I recently heard about an event co-sponsored by> Focus on the Family w/another organization, where> Sen. Barack Obama’s image was used on a Waffle Box.> The back of the box depicted him w/a turban on his> head and rap lyrics on the box. These boxes were> apparently being sold at the event.> > If this is true, I am outraged as a Christian! I> would expect our conservative christian> organizations to be above the tactics used by other> political bodies.> I would expect that though you may not agree with> and/or support Sen. Obama’s views
or platform, that> as citizens we would vote w/our feet verses racially> stereotyping the person.> > I have been a supporter of Focus on the Family> radio, conferences, book purchases etc. . . I am> extremely disappointed and ashamed that your> organization would even partner with another group> who would allow this to happen.> > If this is not true, please correct me and explain,> as the media has already shown the pictures of the> waffle box (”The View “, 9/18/08), and a hot topic> for discussion.> > Really disappointed- Mrs. Harris in Ohio> > Auto-Response - 09/18/2008 10:35 AM> Focus on the Family> > >

Kilpatrick sentenced and resigns all becuase of sex, lies and text messaging. To check out the new mayor click here.

This is Your Nation on White Privilege

By Tim Wise

9/13/08

For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.

White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because “every family has challenges,” even as black and Latino families with similar “challenges” are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.

White privilege is when you can call yourself a “fucking redneck,” like Bristol Palin’s boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you’ll “kick their fucking ass,” and talk about how you like to “shoot shit” for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.

White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then returned to after making up some course work at a community college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative action.

White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people don’t all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator, two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you’re “untested.”

White privilege is being able to say that you support the words “under God” in the pledge of allegiance because “if it was good enough for the founding fathers, it’s good enough for me,” and not be immediately disqualified from holding office–since, after all, the pledge was written in the late 1800s and the “under God” part wasn’t added until the 1950s–while believing that reading accused criminals and terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the Constitution, which you used to teach at a prestigious law school, requires it), is a dangerous and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.

White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people immediately scared of you.

White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union, and whose motto is “Alaska first,” and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you’re black and your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she’s being disrespectful.

White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and the work they do — like, among other things, fight for the right of women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to child labor — and people think you’re being pithy and tough, but if you merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college and the fact that she lives close to Russia — you’re somehow being mean, or even sexist.

White privilege is being able to convince white women who don’t even agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your running mate anyway, because suddenly your presence on the ticket has inspired confidence in these same white women, and made them give your party a “second look.”

White privilege is being able to fire people who didn’t support your political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in Chicago means you must be corrupt.

White privilege is when you can take nearly twenty-four hours to get to a hospital after beginning to leak amniotic fluid, and still be viewed as a great mom whose commitment to her children is unquestionable, and whose “next door neighbor” qualities make her ready to be VP, while if you’re a black candidate for president and you let your children be interviewed for a few seconds on TV, you’re irresponsibly exploiting them.

White privilege is being able to give a 36 minute speech in which you talk about lipstick and make fun of your opponent, while laying out no substantive policy positions on any issue at all, and still manage to be considered a legitimate candidate, while a black person who gives an hour speech the week before, in which he lays out specific policy proposals on several issues, is still criticized for being too vague about what he would do if elected.

White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say the conflict in the Middle East is God’s punishment on Jews for rejecting Jesus, and everyone ca n still think you’re just a good church-going Christian, but if you’re black and friends with a black pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on black people, you’re an extremist who probably hates America.

White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by a reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you such a “trick question,” while being black and merely refusing to give one-word answers to the queries of Bill O’Reilly means you’re dodging the question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.

White privilege is being able to go to a prestigious prep school, then to Yale and then Harvard Business school, and yet, still be seen as just an average guy (George W. Bush) while being black, going to a prestigious prep school, then Occidental College, then Columbia, and then to Harvard Law, makes you “uppity,” and a snob who probably looks down on regular folks.

White privilege is being able to graduate near the bottom of your college class (McCain), or graduate with a C average from Yale (W.) and that’s OK, and you’re cut out to be president, but if you’re black and you graduate near the top of your class from Harvard Law, you can’t be trusted to make good decisions in office.

White privilege is being able to dump your first wife after she’s disfigured in a car crash so you can take up with a multi-millionaire beauty queen (who you go on to call the c-word in public) and still be thought of as a man of strong family values, while if you’re black and married for nearly twenty years to the same woman, your family is viewed as un-American and your gestures of affection for each other are called “terrorist fist bumps”

White privilege is being able to sing a song about bombing Iran and still be viewed as a sober and rational statesman, with the maturity to be president, while being black and suggesting that the U.S. should speak with other nations, even when we have disagreements with them, makes you “dangerously naive and immature.”

White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being black and experiencing racism and an absent father is apparently among the “lesser adversities” faced by other politicians, as Sarah Palin explained in her convention speech.

And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W. Bush 90 percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing, people are losing their homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is increasingly isolated from world opinion, just because white voters aren’t sure about that whole “change” thing. Ya know, it’s just too vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more years of the same, which is very concrete and certain.

White privilege is, in short, the problem.

From the women who know her best! This was not covered by the media in the lower 48..Psssst…pass it on!

[The] Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was to be held outside on the lawn in front of the Loussac Library in midtown Anchorage. Home made signs were encouraged, and the idea was to make a statement that Sarah Palin does not speak for all Alaska women, or men. I had no idea what to expect.

The rally was organized by a small group of women, talking over coffee. It made me wonder what other things have started with small groups of women talking over coffee. It’s probably an impressive list. These women hatched the plan, printed up flyers, posted them around town, and sent notices to local media outlets. One of those media outlets was KBYR radio, home of Eddie Burke, a long-time uber-conservative Anchorage talk show host. Turns out that Eddie Burke not only announced the rally, but called the people who planned to attend the rally ‘a bunch of socialist baby-killing maggots,’ and read the home phone numbers of the organizers aloud over the air, urging listeners to call and tell them what they thought. The women, of course, received some nasty, harassing and threatening messages.

I felt a bit apprehensive. I’d been disappointed before by the turnout at other rallies. Basically, in Anchorage, if you can get 25 people to show up at an event, it’s a success. So, I thought to myself, if we can actually get 100 people there that aren’t sent by Eddie Burke, we’ll be doing good. A real statement will have been made. I confess, I still had a mental image of 15 demonstrators surrounded by hundreds of menacing ’socialist baby-killing maggot’ haters.

It’s a good thing I wasn’t tailgating when I saw the crowd in front of the library or I would have ended up in somebody’s trunk. When I got there, about 20 minutes early, the line of sign wavers stretched the full length of the library grounds, along the edge of the road, 6 or 7 people deep! I could hardly find a place to park. I nabbed one of the last spots in the library lot, and as I got out of the car and started walking, people seemed to join in from every direction, carrying signs.

Never, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years living in Anchorage. The organizers had someone walk the rally with a counter, and they clicked off well over 1400 people (not including the 90 counter-demonstrators). This was the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state. I was absolutely stunned. The second most amazing thing is how many people honked and gave the thumbs up as they drove by. And even those that didn’t honk looked wide-eyed and awe-struck at the huge crowd that was growing by the minute. This just doesn’t happen here.

Then, the infamous Eddie Burke showed up. He tried to talk to the media, and was instantly surrounded by a group of 20 people who started shouting O-BA-MA so loud he couldn’t be heard. Then passing cars started honking in a rhythmic pattern of 3, like the Obama chant, while the crowd cheered, hooted and waved their signs high.

So, if you’ve been doing the math Yes. The Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was significantly bigger than Palin’s rally that got all the national media coverage! So take heart, sit back, and enjoy the photo gallery. Feel free to spread the pictures around to anyone who needs to know that Sarah Palin most definitely does not speak for all Alaskans. The citizens of Alaska, who know her best, have things to say.

(thanks Geralyn!)
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Ahhhh, Sarah Palin has so much dirt swirling around her candidacy she could be a tornado. The latest offense rumbling is the statement Palin made about Barak when he won the primary over Hillary Clinton….”So Sambo beat the Bitxxh!??
Hmmmm. So we add to trooper-gate, where she and her husband are not refusing to comply with subpoenas to testify in this matter, she put her name over McCain’s when describing the administration, she asserted having killed the Bridge to Nowhere–despite the fact that she knows we all know that she approved it, and she has an issue with people who do not do what she says. Palin gives me pause. Please take some time to so through some of the articles and emails on Palin and the Republican party…
Please be sure to see the waffle box with Obama’s caricature likened to an Uncle Tom or Aunt Jemima character which was available for sale at a Focus on the Family event. I have the official apology from Focus posted as well.
Check back often as I will be posting up to the minute information daily. Please keep sending me all of your sources and emails to keep our community aware and involved.
Barack Obama
America’s Next Black President
2008
I’m Just Saying,
Cathleen